Palast's story was run in the mainstream British newspaper The Guardian The Florida Attorney General, Choicepoint [the company that did the list making at the behest of Harris] admitted at Harris didn't want to make sure they got the right people on the list, wanted the dates of crimes and races blacked out, etc.
Jeb Bush is also notorious for denying people their civil liberties, if they move to Florida. I believe it's 6 or 7 court cases have demanded that Jeb Bush cannot revoke civil liberties from ex-felons who served their time and got their civil rights back [there are states, IL is one..where criminals who serve time with good behavior can get their voting rights back] They removed voters this way as well in the 2000 election. It's all in Palast's book [along with a few other good investigative stories about Pat Robertson, hahaha]
The main reason was that FDR thought he could get us out of the Depression with the war. It was the perfect way to get us out of the depression by opening tons of jobs. And we knew from the code that it would occur. It played right into FDR's hand.