DOJ Needs to Intervene in Florida

[DallasNE]

18. The Software Is Written

To do exactly what is written in the specifications. What they are doing in Florida makes absolutely no sense on any level. In fact, it is guaranteed to identify people whose only "crime" is moving. And that means mostly people who rent. Who are the renters? People in the lower income groups that vote mostly Democratic. People of color.

Incredibly, Florida is saying that if your address on the voter registeration rolls is different that your address on your drivers license you are suspected of being in this country illegally for voting purposes. Well the law requires you to reregister to vote when you move but prohibits you from getting a new drivers license when you move within the State until just prior to your old 5-year license expiring. Also, since we are dealing with a difference in address, which address does the State send the notification to? Does Florida give a rationale for such obviously flawed methodology? I havn't heard it if they have.

In 2000 Florida used a felon list from other States to match names in Florida. One documented case showed a name from Texas caused 32 people with the same name in Florida to be purged. They didn't even have to have the same date of birth. And none of the 32 was that man from Texas. Sham matches like these have to be outlawed at the federal level. Besides, current law is preventing illegal people from registering in the first place and that is where the emphasis belongs anyway.