Elections Officials Throughout Florida Refuse To Use Rick Scott’s Inaccurate Lists To Purge Voters
Source: Think Progress
Elections Officials Throughout Florida Refuse To Use Rick Scotts Inaccurate Lists To Purge Voters
By Josh Israel on Jun 1, 2012 at 11:00 am
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Sarasota County: Joyce Soltis, administrative assistant to Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent (R) told ThinkProgress that the county received 14 names of from the state as sure-fire non-citizens. At least two to three of them have already proved their citizenship to the county and one was removed after indicating that he or she was not an eligible voter. Soltis said that while the remaining 10 or 11 voters have not responded, due to the significant inaccuracies on the list, the office has decided We are not purging anyone, from that group.
Volusia County: Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall (R) told ThinkProgress that that county received 15 names from the state. One was not even sent a letter, because the voter is currently serving in the military and another has already proven citizenship. But she said they have no plans to remove any of the remaining 13 voters unless her office receives clear proof. To say the least, the list is very suspect, she explained.
Hillsborough County: The Tampa Tribune reported today that Supervisors or Elections Earl Lennard (R) has also decided not to remove any voters on the unreliable list from the rolls without first receiving corroborating evidence that the voters are not citizens.
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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/01/493206/florida-elections-officials-refuse-purge-voters-inaccurate-lists/
Pasco County: Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley (R) told the Tribune that the state had told supervisors that this purge list was the low-hanging fruit with rock-solid data that they were not citizens. He expressed frustration that the state has put them in a catch-22, complaining If we truly comply and remove those that dont respond, then folks say were suppressing voter rights. If we dont, we have people saying were allowing non-citizens to vote.
Marin County: Because it has proven to be anything but rock-solid data, Supervisor of Elections Vicki Davis (R), president of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, told the Tribune that she believes most of the counties have decided not to purge any voters without other evidence.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...ol' Gee-Dubya and his evil overlord, Darth cheney* and has not forgotten that it was Florida and it's fraudulent electoral drama that gave us the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And many people remember one of the opening salvos in the rethuglican electoral dirty tricks assault was illegally purging over 150,000 likely Democratic voters before Selection 2000.
elleng
(131,066 posts)AND this 'list' doesn't even include Palm Beach County, discussed here:
http://fcir.org/2012/05/31/hillsborough-county-says-no-to-rick-scotts-voter-scrubbing-drive/
I wonder what will change after they've heard about DOJ's directive to scott.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,598 posts)Forida's election habits have smelled to high heaven for ages, far longer than even 2000.
Who would have expected this?
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Maybe Im just being cynical...
alp227
(32,047 posts)and so far I haven't heard any instances of Lennard being called a RINO for seeing through Scott's political smokescreen.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)from the rolls. That's shameful, even to the GOP base.
Voting by non-citizens is not a problem in this country: we actually have a tough time getting citizens to vote. Anyone who has ever registered voters kjnows that this is true. If you are a green card holder in the process of naturalization, the last thing you want to do is to draw attention to yourself by registering illegally to vote. If you're an undoctumented worker, the last thing you want to do is to draw government attention to yourself, period.
Here in North Carolina, we have a burgeoning population of people who come here from all over the world. I have spoken with many ineligible immigrants while registering voters: none of them has ever expressed interest in registering. They know they are ineligible. Eligible immigrants, people who have become citizens, also self-identify, know more about their voting rights than most native-born citizens, and are often already registered.
It's another manufactured GOP non-problem. The funny thing is that many folks in the GOP seem to have a hard time understanding why folks who become naturalized citizens (excluding Cuban-Americans and a few other groups) won't become Republicans, when the GOP itself has been doing things such as this that tell these communities that they don't want their votes, and then they enact these schemes that inevitiably also target naturalized citizens. The mind boggles at why the GOP has any puzzlement at this--the lack of cognitive dissonance here is shocking.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)of states trying to purge voters.
FLAprogressive
(6,771 posts)Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Certainly doesn't exist in the Republican Party. It's all about totalitarian power for their interests. And those interests don't serve 95% of the people.
Erda
(107 posts)Made the point that all the Justice Department really has to do to bring this purge to an end is to discuss jail time for any supervisor who violates the Voting Rights Act. He said that the supervisors are running scared because of this. Can you imagine going to jail because you enforced Rick Scott's shenanigans? A very real possibility.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)... counties probably cant afford the legal battle with the Feds.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Where Ocala and the Florida Thoroughbred business is located.