DSCC email on Florida voter purge has wrong solution.

[yurbud]

The good: unlike prior years, Dems are giving the issue a high profile

The bad: a petition to tell the GOP to STOP DOING IT? Would that be an effective approach to dealing with terrorists, drug lords, and serial killers?

When someone is committing a crime, you don't ask them to stop, you ask the cops to do their job and stop them. If Florida ignores the Justice Department order, arrests should be made, and the courts should supervise whose on the voter rolls and the voting for duration. Republicans might actually stop using this tactic if a governor and/or Karl Rove level strategist did some prison or even just jail time.

Our right to vote should not be something we have to petition the GOP to grant us.

[Shagman]

1. this is illegal

It's not just a policy disagreement.

When I see parties tiptoeing around these issues, I get the feeling they don't want anybody digging too deeply into election problems, because there are bodies buried on both sides of that fence.

As far as I'm concerned, these people are fixing the election, in effect overthrowing the government. They ought to be hung, not sent to a country-club prison.

[yurbud]

2. I agree, but even Club Fed would be a huge improvement

[Indydem]

3. They feel the VRA is unconstitutional.

Since the VRA is up for judicial review by the SCOTUS next session, they are just adding fuel to the fire to get it ruled unconstitutional and let them off their leashes to purge, cage, and eliminate voters all across the south.

[Skinner]

4. This is a DSCC email.

The purpose of the petition is so the DSCC can get your info and add you to their list.

[yurbud]

6. if they are going to use a petition as bait, it should also make sense.

[Skinner]

7. FWIW, the Justice Department is suing the State of Florida.

So this petition is not the sum total of our efforts to stop the purge.

[yurbud]

8. good. But this looks too much like the feigned half-effort Dems have made in the past

on issues like this, which aggravated people who busted their humps for Dems only to see Democratic elected officials fold without trying much.

[longship]

5. None of the FL supervisors are purging voters

Remember, the voter rolls are controlled by the county and only county election supervisors can implement the purging of voters, which they are refusing to do.

I agree that if the state officers are insisting the purge go on that is very bad. But there would first have to be actual purging happening otherwise the case is moot. Plus, in order for somebody to go to jail there would have to be some criminality as defined by law. Or, in violation of a court order, in which case it would be a contempt charge.

I may be mistaken, but that's my understanding of what's happening and not happening in FL. Nobody is getting purged right now, and until Nov election. Scott can scream about it all he wants, but the supers are obeying the DOJ and not purging.

N.B., IANAL