(Florida) State was warned voter purge used inaccurate data
Weeks before the Florida Department of State publicly announced its non-citizen voter purge, proclaiming it was cleaning up the voter rolls, local supervisor of elections were already warning state election officials that the department's data were bad.
In late March, the state elections office alerted local supervisors that it was sending them a list of 2,600 voters who had been identified as non-citizens based on drivers' license records from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Right away, according to emails obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel and the Orlando Sentinel, there was concern from election supervisors.
On April 2, Seminole County Election Supervisor Mike Ertel emailed Gisela Salas, director of the Florida Division of Elections, that some of the five people on Ertel's list were non-citizens when they obtained a driver's license but had subsequently become citizens. In fact, he said, some had registered to vote at their naturalization ceremony.
"I hate having these new citizens' first experience with our process be one that frustrates," Ertel wrote, following it with a smiley face.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-22/news/fl-elex-supervisors-warned-state-of-problems-20120622_1_voter-purge-state-spokesman-chris-cate-voter-rolls
