Florida's top elections official under fire on two fronts [View all]

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Florida's top elections official under fire on two fronts

By STEVE BOUSQUET
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau April 8, 2015 Updated 12 hours ago

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott's chief elections official is in big trouble with two key groups: state legislators who write the voting laws and county election supervisors who run elections.

Secretary of State Ken Detzner can't afford to alienate either constituency as Florida heads toward a presidential election in 2016, when the eyes of the nation will again be on the biggest battleground state.

Lawmakers blasted Detzner on Wednesday for fighting their plan to let people register to vote online by October 2017. Elections officials were livid to learn Detzner released private data on more than 45,000 voters, including judges and police officers -- and didn't alert them immediately.

Detzner's office acknowledged the security breach on so-called high-risk voters -- who should have been exempt from disclosure -- included judges, police, firefighters, prosecutors, public defenders, and crime victims and their family members, among others.

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2015/04/08/5736012/floridas-top-elections-official.html#storylink=cpy

The three questions that I had immediately - when even the Republican dominated Florida Legislature is dubious of this guy how can he be effective? Why hasn't the information about his department's security breach made headlines all over the country?

And the most important question I have - if his department is that incompetent at controlling private information on individuals how can we trust them to run elections at all, much less online voting?