Posted on 05/31/2012 6:00:14 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
The Justice Department sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Thursday evening demanding the state cease purging its voting rolls because the process it is using has not been cleared under the Voting Rights Act, TPM has learned.
DOJ also said that Florida’s voter roll purge violated the National Voter Registration Act, which stipulates that voter roll maintenance should have ceased 90 days before an election, which given Florida’s August 14 primary, meant May 16.
Five of Florida’s counties are subject to the Voting Rights Act, but the state never sought permission from either the Justice Department or a federal court to implement its voter roll maintenance program. Florida officials said they were trying to remove non-citizens from the voting rolls, but a flawed process led to several U.S. citizens being asked to prove their citizenship status or be kicked off the rolls.
Six members of Congress wrote Gov. Rick Scott earlier this week demanding that he stop purging the state’s voting rolls since the process improperly flagged numerous individuals who were eligible to vote.
“To enable us to meet our responsibility to enforce federal law, please inform us by June 6 of the action that the State of Florida plans to take concerning the matters discussed in this letter,” Christian Herren, chief of the voting section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, wrote in the letter obtained by TPM. “Specifically, please advise whether the State intends to cease the practice discussed above, so that the Department can determine what futher action, if any, is necessary.”
The States need to start standing up to this crap. Ignore them or tell them to go pound sand!
Gov Scott should tell Holder to buzz off.
When Obama loses, the election will be declared null and void because blacks and other “oppressed” people were improperly scrubbed from the voter rolls. And the MSM will join in.
Maybe this is the Democrats opening to contest the results of Congressional and Presidential votes the fall. Don’t put anything past these people.
Moving, being deceased, multiple registrations are not fair reasons for being purged. /s
In the NH sting by O’Keefe this year, a poll worker at one place said the deceased were being scrubbed right up to a couple days before the election.
What in the world is to be gained by not doing so?
Why is there this 90 day thing anyways and does it exists across all fed elections?
In the NH sting by O’Keefe this year, a poll worker at one place said the deceased were being scrubbed right up to a couple days before the election.
What in the world is to be gained by not doing so?
Why is there this 90 day thing anyways and does it exists across all fed elections?
Perhaps a multi-state lawsuit by a group of Attorney Generals would do the trick.
Florida ping.
Eric Holder out to destroy honest elections.
I posted a thread the other day on the worthless Florida Demonrats Alcee Impeached Hastings and Ted Deutch-bag...they had found some 90 year old man who had gotten a letter from the Democrat Supervisor of Elections in Broward County, telling him he needed to straighten out his registration or he would be removed.
The ‘rats crybabies suddenly tried to make him a victim and Rick Scott an eeeeevil person. The media sucked it up and trumpeted how horrible it was for the government to make sure the voter rolls were correct.
Ah...here is Rick Scott’s opening to go all 10th Amendment on the commies in DC. Perry did it, Walker did it, Jindal, too. Scott can score big if he takes advantage of this.
They have already joined...at least two Miami tv stations are whining about this...the NBC and the Fox, I think,
this is important..
but what is even more important is the fact that states that have been slipping into the democratic collumn in recent decades don’t come back... and no traditional democratic states seem to be trending Republican... this is very worrying... because as soon as enough illegal flood us here to Texas to flip it Democratic... it’s game over for the Republican party unless we can start flipping some blue states into red ones consistantly.
the election will be declared null and void
Okay, by whom?
-——The Justice Department sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Thursday -——
I’m sure someone in Tallahassee has a “return to sender “ stamp to address it back to the corrupt DOJ
The Rats clearly intend to steal FL.
I don’t recall a previous Justice Dept so active in wasting taxpayer time and money by suing as many States as Holder has. Big Brother.
They also knocked off the voting list a 91 year old vet. Florida needs to be more careful or the Feds will nix the entire effort.
“How dare you purge the voter rolls of dead Rats and illegal alien Rats!”
For the life of me I cannot understand that whenever there is an attempt to instill a little integrity and honesty in voting democrats/liberals go into full freak out mode. Why is that? And it cannot simply be those folks are counting on cheating to win. And I cannot accept that only those folks care about disenfranchising people either. I want everyone who is lawfully permitted to vote to vote.
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