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.”
“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.”
Well, consider that fraudulent voting is probably just the most obvious scam the Dems use; if it gets deep sixed, it may open Pandora’s Box and more scams will come to light.
I believe the 91 year old vet was told to contact them within 30 days if this was not correct. He did contact them didn’t he? Are there others?
Bugger-off, feds! We’ll clean-up our own State ................................................. FRegards
Just do it anyway. The White House does whatever it wants anyway.
Issue an Executive Order saying you can.
And those six members of Congress were...
That 91-year-old vet did not get knocked off the rolls. He was sent a letter requesting that he confirm his info. Why? Turns out — and he admits to this now — that way back in the day, he lied about his age to the DMV so that he could get his driver’s license two years early. So, his DMV records did not match up with his voter registration record. It is reassuring that this raised a red flag and that FL followed up on it.
Byzantine labyrinth...
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/42usc/subch_ih.php#anchor_1973gg-6
(2)(A) A State shall complete, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election for Federal office, any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.
(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not be construed to preclude -
(i) the removal of names from official lists of voters on a basis described in paragraph (3)(A) or (B) or (4)(A) of subsection (a) of this section; or
(ii) correction of registration records pursuant to this subchapter.
IMO at some point in time all the current voter registration logs need to be destroyed and anyone who wants to vote needs to re-register in person.
In the 2008 election, Nevada election officials ‘caught’ ACORN with over 400,000 phony registrations. Alledgely, those people were not allowed to vote......
There are less than 3 million people total in Nevada.
Having ‘caught’ over 400,000 ellegals registrations is a huge percentage versus the entire state population, IMO.
It took the Nevada AG- a suck up to Obama’s rear end supporter—over 2 years to prosecute & fine ACORN.
The fine??? $5,000. That works out to 1 1/4 CENTS per bad voter registration!!!
They certainly are bent on stealing another election, IMO.
That 91-year-old vet did not get knocked off the rolls. He was sent a letter requesting that he confirm his info.
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If you don’t stop adding facts and truisms, you will not be allowed to play any more.
IMO at some point in time all the current voter registration logs need to be destroyed and anyone who wants to vote needs to re-register in person
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A few years back the DC teachers rolls were so screwed up that it was recommended they FIRE everyone, make them pickup their final check in person and give them an application for getting rehired.
Of course the Libs/Unions had a problem with this very viable solution.
I believe R Reagan also did something similar when he was Guv of CA...something about not mailing out Welfare/Unemployment checks.
This is not a judgement by a court!
This IS a letter demanding only....
Ignore it!
Yep. Getting ready for the mau mau campaign, like the one used by raila odinga after he lost the kenyan presidential election. Supposedly on obama’s advice.
The jig is up.......?
No $hit, up to no good!
Agreed, Florida desperately needs to give the Federal department of injustice to take a hike. Elections are state issues, as is election fraud detection.
If they don’t like it they can kiss our patriot ass. We won’t yield our rights to a lawless “government”. Washington needs to learn it has very strict and finite bounds that DO NOT include its own elections!
To be honest I find the democratic race slave issue to be more disturbing from an ethical and political point of view.
Somehow democrats have managed to culturally indoctrinate entire “races” of people into voting for them simply because of the color of their skin. How disgusting is that? Its as if to the democrats theses people have no minds, thoughts and dreams of their own, and instead only fear, jealousy, and greed.
Our Justice Department is working to keep illegal voters on the rolls? The administration from hell...
Holder, and 0bama can't seem to stop meddling in the States affairs. Holder, for a number of reasons should be tried, convicted, and given a cell with Bubba at Leavenworth...or hung.
5.56mm
This shows the system was working and his more than 70 year old lie finally caught up with him.
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