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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/04/494794/fifteen-voters-removed-in-rick-scotts-purge-reinstated-by-florida-elections-supervisors/|Last week, the Clay and Pinellas County Supervisors of Elections offices told ThinkProgress that they had already removed names from the voter rolls on the basis of not responding within 30 days to letters demanding proof of citizenship. But after the Justice Department demanded Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) end his extensive purge of registered voters from the rolls because it was in violation of federal law, all 67 county supervisors announced they would suspend the illegal removals.
While the decision by the county supervisors to halt the purge and reinstate the improperly removed voters represents a victory for the right to vote, the Scott administration has still not announced whether it will defy the Department of Justice and continue to purge voter rolls.
But what of the 14 voters in Pinellas County and the one voter in Clay County who had already been purged?
According to spokeswomen for both offices, the voters in question have all been reinstated. The data processing manager for Clay County noted that the one woman removed from the rolls had already been restored. It turned out she provided documentation to the office over the weekend proving her citizenship yet another piece of evidence that the Scott administrations list of sure-fire non-citizens was riddled with an gigantic number of errors.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)and his hench-woman Katherine Harris purged 7,000 legally eligible voters from the rolls. Most of them Democratic African American voters. That represented almost 4 times the margin by which brother George Bush supposedly carried the state.
There was an outcry across the state but when your brother is the president, who really listens? Certainly the media didn't. Every time I hear someone mention Jeb as a possible VP I get just a bit crazy. That he plans to run for the nomination the next time a Dem is in the WH is a certainty. He threw Harris under the bus when she was seeking the GOP nomination for Governor...he backed Charlie Crist...so he could distance himself from the scandal. But we in FL remember. To make it worse, I live in Palm Beach County (land of the hanging chad) I still remember voting in Nov., 2000 and thinking "these ballots are really stiff, how are our elderly managing to get the push pen through" You really had to force the instrument through.
Politics in Florida are really a mess. The gerrymandering is an embarrassment as well as an assault on democracy. Jeb was the first Republican governor to win a second term here, ever. Since then we've had Crist and now Scott...Just how does that happen if the fix isn't in?
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bigtree
(86,025 posts). . .and they're not going to break the law for him.