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The Justice Department ordered Florida’s elections division to halt a systematic effort to find and purge the state’s voter rolls of noncitizen voters.
Florida’s effort appears to violate both the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities, and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act – which governs voter purges – T. Christian Herren Jr., the Justice Department’s lead civil rights lawyer, wrote in a detailed two-page letter sent late Thursday night.
So far, Florida has flagged 2,700 potential noncitizen voters and sent the list to county elections supervisors, who have found the data and methodology to be flawed and problematic. The list of potential noncitizen voters – many of whom have turned out to be lawful citizens and voters – disproportionately hits minorities, especially Hispanics.
About 58 percent of those flagged as potential noncitizens are Hispanics, Florida’s largest ethnic immigrant population, a Miami Herald analysis found. Hispanics make up 13 percent of the overall 11.3 million active registered voters.
What do William Internicola and Archibald Bowyer have in common?
1) They are both 91 years old.
2) Both were born in the United States.
3) They both were declared non-citizens by the State of Florida.
4) BOTH FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II, AND ONE OF THEM IS EVEN A WAR HERO.
Way to support those who fought for our country, Governor Scott...... Douche bag!!
While Rick Scott is considering to actually refuse to obey the laws of the United States of America, and go ahead with his vote purge, despite the order from the Department of Justice not to, Supervisors of Elections in Florida, some of them who are Republican, are refusing to obey Scott's orders to conduct the purge. Good for them. They are the REAL Americans, much to Scott's chagrin. But Scott does have an option here. If he doesn't like the disobedience that is being conducted right in front of him, he can always move to a nation that is more in line with his way of thinking when it comes to elections...... Iran!! NOTE: His first choice would have been the Soviet Union, but his Russian comrades seem to be out of business there. Pity.
I'm Canadian but am looking forward to voting in US elections.
I'm an American citizen looking forward to being purged from voting in US elections.
Yeah, and you just might be.
My understanding is that there are over 2 million federal employees. Isn't there an agency somewhere which can figure out who is eligible to vote?
It's been over 235 year now. Aren't the citizens getting a little impatient for the Feds to solve the problem?
Each state controls it's own voter registration lists. However, Florida has had a long history of Jim Crow, and voter suppression, so much so that any plan it comes up with, in regard to voting, must be reviewed by the Federal government to assure that it complies with the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 14th Amendment, both of which the State of Florida has violated time and time again, thus making Federal review of it's programs necessary.
So it is only since 1965 that they couldn't get their act together? That's well under 50 years!
I had thought it was a long term problem but it seems the bureaucracy and federal government has it all under control.
It's quite obvious that Florida doesn't have the problem under control. If they did, then Federal intervention would not be necessary.
BTW, how do you say Jim Crow in Spanish? :mrgreen:
1) They are both 91 years old.
2) Both were born in the United States.
3) They both were declared non-citizens by the State of Florida.
4) BOTH FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II, AND ONE OF THEM IS EVEN A WAR HERO.
You forgot(I know it kinda debnks your whole bogus premise):
5. They both are not democrats
6. The both are not hispanic,
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
I'm Canadian but am looking forward to voting in US elections.
Kinda wish you'd just move there, get it over with and finally become the Tea Party Patriot you always wished you could be.
Seriously I don't know where the hell you got your political ideas from but they are not very, what I would consider very Canadian.
Well you can always try to debate my very un-Canadian political ideas. Ever thought of that?
Grant, you're not someone that can be debated.
Arguing with you, is like arguing with a dining room table, I have no interest in it.
I just want to remind people that you don't speak for mainstream Canadians.
It seems that the Feds had almost 50 years to fix the Florida problem but couldn't. Bless the American people for their patience.
But, sadly, it seems the problems aren't restricted to Florida.
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2004 United States election voting controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When no one knows who is or isn't a US citizen it must make the job more difficult.
It seems that the Feds had almost 50 years to fix the Florida problem but couldn't.
What do William Internicola and Archibald Bowyer have in common?
1) They are both 91 years old.
2) Both were born in the United States.
3) They both were declared non-citizens by the State of Florida.
4) BOTH FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II, AND ONE OF THEM IS EVEN A WAR HERO.
Way to support those who fought for our country, Governor Scott...... Douche bag!!
While Rick Scott is considering to actually refuse to obey the laws of the United States of America, and go ahead with his vote purge, despite the order from the Department of Justice not to, Supervisors of Elections in Florida, some of them who are Republican, are refusing to obey Scott's orders to conduct the purge. Good for them. They are the REAL Americans, much to Scott's chagrin. But Scott does have an option here. If he doesn't like the disobedience that is being conducted right in front of him, he can always move to a nation that is more in line with his way of thinking when it comes to elections...... Iran!! NOTE: His first choice would have been the Soviet Union, but his Russian comrades seem to be out of business there. Pity.
No one seems more fixated on the color of the presidents skin than you. Are you and hayracist the same person?Hell, Dan, how the hell is we to toss blackie outta the white house iffen we don't cheat? We gots to take back our country from blackie.
It's not up to the Federal government to fix Florida's problem. It's up to Florida, and until Florida does fix it's problem, the Feds will be watching them, and putting a stop to anything they attempt to do that breaks the law.
If only the Fed's would put half the effort in preventing illegal voting, we might just have a sound, legitimate electoral system. But as we have all witnessed over the last 4 years, the Feds only care about enforcing laws that meet with Obama and the progressive agenda.
Now why would the Justice Department order a purge of non-citizens to be stopped? A purge like this is a good thing, right? Well, not really. Not if a substantial number of purged voters are actually citizens, and are being added to the purge list because they don't happen to be white Republicans.
Article is here.
If only the Fed's would put half the effort in preventing illegal voting,
we might just have a sound, legitimate electoral system. But as we have all witnessed over the last 4 years, the Feds only care about enforcing laws that meet with Obama and the progressive agenda.
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