Republican 'Help America Vote Act' of 2002 makes each US state's voting mirror the Florida system.

Visualize a Fair Election in 2004: "In 2002, with little public notice, Congress passed and the president signed the 'Help America Vote Act.' Hidden behind the apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time-bomb. Every state must, by the 2004 elections, imitate Florida's system of computerizing voter files; the law empowers 50 secretaries of state to purge these lists of suspect voters [NOTE: I did not find that in the law, but it is a monstrous piece of fluff, could be there...]... ...The new law is a radical change in our democracy. Until now, with the notable exception of Florida, voter rolls throughout America have been maintained by county officials watched over by bi-partisan committees. Now the job of deciding who can and can't vote will fall to a single official the 'Katherine Harris' of each state. "