You write that “no law of any kind prohibits a state from ensuring that non-citizens do not vote.”
According to the linked article, there is a law that prohibits Florida from doing it at this time. If the state tries to purge someone who’s actually a citizen, it might take time for the citizen to provide documentation, for the state to evaluate it, and for the citizen to be included in voter lists sent out to polling places. Therefore, under the National Voter Registration Act, the state can’t do a purge program within 90 days before a primary or general election. Florida needed to do this earlier (I think the primary is in mid-August).
It’s not like this is a new issue. Why did the geniuses in Florida wait until after the deadline before they tried to start purging?
"It’s not like this is a new issue. Why did the geniuses in Florida wait until after the deadline before they tried to start purging?"
I guess the geniuses want to have their cake and eat it, too. They can say they were trying to purge the rolls but know they won't be able to do so prior to the upcoming election. If they're serious, they'll work on some way to check up on people at the polls or better still, to have INS officials around all the polling places. If the Black Panthers can have poll watchers the INS can. But, then again, if they were serious, you're right, why did they wait.
It’s not like this is a new issue. Why did the geniuses in Florida wait until after the deadline before they tried to start purging?
This is where it's in dispute, but you wouldn't hear that in the mainstream media. The VRA prohibits purges from being done within 90 days of a federal election. Florida's August 16th primary is not a federal election. The DOJ claims that because there are congressional seats at play, this makes it a federal election.
Florida began the process nine months ago and the Feds delayed it until it was "too late".