Abstract New evidence from thousands of voting precincts confirms the finding of my report to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that in Florida�'s 2000 presidential election, ballots cast by blacks were far more likely than ballots cast by whites to be rejected as invalid. If rejection rates had been equal for blacks and whites, blacks would have cast more than 50,000 additional votes. Racial differences in rejection rates cannot be explained by such factors as education or income, first‐time voting, ballot design, voting technology, or the race and party of election supervisors. John Lott�'s attempt to refute these findings contradicts his earlier study and the report of two dissenting civil rights commissioners that relied on his work. His latest findings result from a flawed research design and are incredible on their face. Additional on‐the‐ground investigation in Florida is needed to test hypotheses about the reasons for the wide racial disparities in ballot rejection rates.