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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Scott’s Initial Voter Purge List Shown To Be 98.4% Inaccurate
Daily Kos reports the Miami Herald uncovered the fact that Democratic, Independent and Hispanic voters are most likely to fall prey to Florida Governor Rick Scotts plan to purge voter rolls.
The Herald reported that according to the states Division of Elections, 180,000 potential non-citizens were identified by searching a database with outdated, inaccurate information. About 58% of those are Hispanics, who make up 13% of registered active voters in the state. About two-thirds of the suspected non-citizens are located in Miami-Dade, the states largest county and comprising the largest population of immigrants. Blacks comprise 14 percent of the list and only account for about 13 percent of the overall voter rolls in the state. Democrats are the largest group on the potential non-citizen list, comprising roughly 40 percent. They also represent about 40% of voter rolls. In stark contrast to those numbers, Republicans, who total 36 percent of voter rolls, account for only 21 percent of the potential non-citizens. Only 13 percent of the non-citizen list is white, even though whites account for more than 68 percent of Floridas active voter rolls.
ElectionSmith, Inc., an organization that specializes in data collection and analysis, found that out of 2,625 names targeted by the Florida Secretary of State as non-citizens in thirteen counties, only 41 were removed from the rolls. That boils down to a 98.4% error rate on the part of the SOS.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/06/30/inaccurate/
goclark
(30,404 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Charge them with election fraud and violation of civil rights under the VRA and MV RA.
goclark
(30,404 posts)Arrest RMoney too please.
Give him a padded cell with and elevator that only has one floor and the reinforced ceiling will be the stopping point!
chknltl
(10,558 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts).... Holder will get right on it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)There is no doubt the remaining 180,000 will have a far lower accuracy than the 1.6% of the 2600 list.
Galraedia
(5,030 posts)he couldn't prove that drug use is higher among welfare recipients after passing his bill and having only 2% turn up positive.
alp227
(32,075 posts)"Poll: Scott Approval Rating Falls To 31%" (WFOR, 6/9/2012): In fact, it's even reported: "The PPP poll found that Scott receives just 53 percent approval from Republicans and that 17 percent would take their chances with (Democratic challenger Nan) Rich rather than voting for Scott." LOL, 17 percent who would DARE vote for...a DemocRAT? LEW-SERS!
Hmm, it seems that even some REPUBLICANS in the state recognize that Scott is doing the drug tests for welfare and voter purge things for political purposes, not because the people are really demanding those things.
And his approval had been in the 30s/40s range thru the second half of 2011.
retread
(3,766 posts)have found majority support for the undead Governor's policy but no support for him.
People like his purges and pee-tests but dislike him personally. Seems no one likes a zombie.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)what HIS numbers are..and if he runs again when his term is up, he has plenty of money available to buy another election..
julian09
(1,435 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)Dishonest, slimy, unethical, only cares about the wealthy top percentile, morally bankrupt, yup, he will go places in todays republican party!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)for conspiracy to violate the VRA, and whatever RICO statutes apply.
STOP APPEASING AND CODDLING THESE PEOPLE. THEY'RE CRIMINALS, AND YOU'RE THE NATION'S CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
glinda
(14,807 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)You can't arrest them, they're the ones that do the arresting.
These assholes could just pass a law that non-whites can't vote and Democrats would say, "That's not right." Republicans would follow with "Shut up!" and Democrats would say, "Okay,....still friends?"
yardwork
(61,772 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)A failure rate of only 98.4% is practically a high water mark for accuracy.
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)pRick Scott is moving forward with his Koch Bros agenda.. and no one can stop him.
He has thumbed his nose at the Feds.. and sadly, the Florida legislature is so corrupt and so far to the right... that it makes Tea-Bag-nuttery look civilized.
Drug testing for food stamps, drug testing for unemployment, voter purges, giving rail money away, Charter schools.
We even have our own version of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.. Sheriff Grady Judd of Lakeland, Fla. (He sees Jesus in toasted cheese sandwiches, wants to bring back public hanging and sees "Muslim" terrorists on every corner. Sheeesh.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)quaker bill
(8,225 posts)as the "accuracy" of testing welfare recipients for drugs - about 2 percent.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Can anyone register without ID?
yardwork
(61,772 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)He's there to screw over Floridians on behalf of business interests and the Republican Party. Period. He has no thought of any other goal. He has infiltrated our state for the purpose of doing harm.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)You call that a purge.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Pardon my confusion, are 180,000 members of the American electorate being disenfranchised in Fla.?