Virtual Blackout From National Media On Voter Suppression In Florida

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: thinkprogress.org

Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has directed his administration to purge the state’s voting rolls of thousands of registered voters prior to the November election. But his list, which purports to include only “non-citizens,” targets mostly Democrats and Hispanics and, as ThinkProgress has documented, may disenfranchise hundreds of citizens who are eligible to vote.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/29/491805/rick-scott-voter-purge-national-media/

[deutsey]

1. Nothing new...began with the 2000 election

Nobody but a very small, outraged minority gave a shit about the suppression that happened back then. I was told even by Democratic friends to get over it.

Now it's American democracy that may never get over it.

[lunasun]

13. do not forget no one in Congress wanted to look into it either back then

[deutsey]

26. Same with the corporate-owned news media

I think Florida's massive (and well documented) voter suppression in 2000 has largely gone down the memory hole.

"Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?"
-RATM

[Suich]

2. MSNBC covered it today. n/t

[lonestarnot]

4. In their coverage, did they say what was being done about it?

[goclark]

14. The Ed Show got fired up about it today

Finally they are talking about SUPPRESSION!

[Archae]

16. So did Rachel.

[boppers]

18. So "blackout", in this case, means "hyperbole"? eom

[lonestarnot]

23. Saw that too.

[lonestarnot]

22. Saw that.

[Botany]

3. the ? is who does the media work for?

[DonCoquixote]

5. The media would LOVE another 2000

Because they would make $$$$. They have what Alexander Hamilton would call a "vested interest in disorder."

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. We still have the internet

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Exactly Why I posted this.....

hopefully somebody in tweeterville and face book will grab this piece and blow it up.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. We need to keep Tweeting!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

21. I've tweeted and FB'd it...

...not ONE single response. The nation is truly asleep. Until/unless the media crawls all over it, most Americas ASSume it isn't happening.

[DeSwiss]

9. The DOJ has still jurisidiction under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I believe.....

...in five counties in Florida (Collier, Hardee, Hendry, Hillsborough, Monroe) where they cannot effect any changes in voting procedures or qualifications without first obtaining pre-clearance.

Section 5 of the Act requires that the United States Department of Justice, through an administrative procedure, or a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, through a declaratory judgment action "preclear" any attempt to change “any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting..." in any "covered jurisdiction."

link

- Boy, would I'd love to see Lil' Ricky frog-marched to jail by the Feebies for violation of this law. But I know that ain't gonna happen because such an act is not bi-partisanny enough......

K&R

[TrogL]

10. This has to be fixed at the local level

Start getting people their voter ID now

[Akoto]

11. The local news here in FL is covering it.

CBS News 12 covered the WW2 veteran whose voting rights were taken away.

[Bellerophon]

33. they eerent taken

Away... he just needs to supply the same proof as befrey

[Purveyor]

12. Documentation is being filmed and gathered on the travesty. No sense rushing it. Stay tuned... eom

[fcq52]

15. Virtual Blackout From National Media On Voter Suppression In Florida

As a FL resident I can tell you that complying to the voter ID laws are next to impossible. They want everything but a DNA sample and a bucket of money just to change your address on a driver license now. I have never seen anything like it in my 23 years in the state. Democracy is dying and it seems like there is nothing we can do to stop it. Citizens United marked the beginning of the end of our freedom.

[tcaudilllg]

20. Protest

Stage a massive vigil outside Scott's mansion. Embarrass the hell out of him.

[Smilo]

17. We all know this is wrong, corrupt and anti-American

unfortunately, scott is going to be able to get away with it until someone like Obama - says no not happening and sends in the Feds.

If we wait to go through the courts it will take too long and scott and his handlers will have the results they want.

Watch this spread across the nation - it has to be stopped NOW!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

28. The Feds won't be sent in. Too busy prosecuting State-approved medical-marijuana dispensaries.

[JNelson6563]

24. Good to see MSNBC's been covering this

Now if we can get the Daily Show and Colbert Report to cover it then at least the more legitimate news sources are on it, perhaps the wannabes would follow suit?

Julie

[EFerrari]

25. I was looking for an article that came out about three weeks ago

claiming that Florida was key to winning the election. Didn't find it but did find one that said Florida, Ohio and Virginia are key. Virginia?!

[JNelson6563]

29. "Virginia?" is right.

Soon they will claim Utah is a must win for Obama. Oy.

Julie

[mathematic]

32. Virginia is a swing state & Obama won it in '08.

So it's nothing like Utah and a whole lot like Ohio and Florida.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

27. Unless Scott starts operating a medical-marijuana dispensary, he's probably safe from the DOJ

[librechik]

30. at least this time it's only hundreds disenfranchised

not 90,000 as in 2000

altho they surely haven't finished, have they?

[crunch60]

31. Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:34 PM PDT Florida purging voter rolls-Salon is covering the story

snip;
Hated Florida Governor Rick Scott has a great idea: A big, massive purge of the state’s voter roll right before a sure-to-be-close presidential election. The governor ordered his secretary of state to compile a list of registered voters who might not be citizens, based on an unreliable and out-of-date state motor vehicle administration database. The secretary of state made a list and then realized the list was not actually very useful or accurate. Then he resigned, and now Scott is just purging away.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/florida_purging_voter_rolls/singleton/

[flamingdem]

34. BUMP nt