EXCLUSIVE:Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible

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EXCLUSIVE:Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible To Vote
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/27/491012/exclusive-florida-telling-hundreds-of-eligible-citizens-that-they-are-ineligible-to-vote/

Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has ordered the state to purge all “non-citizens” from the voting rolls prior to November’s election. But that list compiled by the Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in Miami-Dade County alone, hundreds of U.S. citizens are being told they are ineligible to vote, ThinkProgress has learned exlusively

According to data from the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections obtained by ThinkProgress:

— 1638 people in Miami-Dade County were flagged by the state as “non-citizens” and sent letters informing them that they were ineligible to vote.

— Of that group, 359 people have subsquently provided the county with proof of citizenship.

more at link

[Woody Woodpecker]

1. Can a class-action lawsuit against Florida

from trying to purge eligible voters (mostly Dems/AA's) from the rolls?

[gratuitous]

2. The question is: Who's going to stop him?

The Department of Justice has shown a remarkable incuriosity in policing anything except medical marijuana dispensaries. The people of the state of Florida? They've been quite resilient and accepting of all manner of corruption - I refer you to the stellar reporting of Carl Hiassen for more examples than the bandwidth at DU can accommodate.

Just another sad chapter in a sorry story that has no end. Unless . . .

[FreeBC]

3. Hundreds? Strange headline.... It's Thousands.

[valerief]

5. Yeah, but they're only telling hundreds. nt

[treestar]

4. We can be happy that "proof of citizenship" was accepted

We know how hard the President has had to work to prove it and that a BC is sometimes not enough.