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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Supervisor of Elections: Gov. Scott’s Voter Purge Will Remove Eligible Voters
Florida Supervisor of Elections: Gov. Scotts Voter Purge Will Remove Eligible Voters From RollsAccording to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, eligible voters will be removed from the voting rolls as a result of the massive voter purge ordered by Governor Rick Scott. It will happen, Mary Cooney, a spokeswoman for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, told ThinkProgress.
Late last year, Governor Scott ordered his Secretary of State, Kurt Browning to to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the voter rolls. Browning could not get access to reliable citizenship data. So Scott urged election officials to identify non-U.S. citizens by comparing data from the state motor vehicle administration with the voting file.
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Browing resigned in February. But Scott has pressed forward with his efforts to purge voters from the rolls based on the dubious list. Heres the letter Maureen Russo, a U.S. citizen and registered voter in Florida for the last 40 years, recieved two weeks ago:
more at link
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/26/490971/florida-supervisor-of-elections-scott-voter-purge-remove-eligible-voters/
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Florida Supervisor of Elections: Gov. Scott’s Voter Purge Will Remove Eligible Voters (Original Post)
cal04
May 2012
OP
Paging Eric Holder and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice - n/t
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#1
he's too busy busting cancer patients, big pharma's drug profits are a priority
leftyohiolib
May 2012
#2
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)1. Paging Eric Holder and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice - n/t
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)2. he's too busy busting cancer patients, big pharma's drug profits are a priority
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)3. +1