County elections chiefs to state: We won’t resume voter purge program

[kpete]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Friday, 06.08.12

County elections chiefs to state: We won’t resume voter purge program

Despite the state’s decision to fight the feds over Florida’s noncitizen voter purge, elections supervisors say they won’t resume the progam.

Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner defends Florida's decision to pursue its effort to remove ineligible voters from the state's voter rolls, saying the credibility of Florida's election system is at stake. He thinks the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is violating federal law by denying access to an immigration database that could help identify noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Florida. The League of Women Voters of Florida expresses its concern over the voter purge effort, saying it wants to make sure eligible voters are not inappropriately removed from voter rolls. The federal government wants Florida to stop the effort, but the state disagrees and is still asking for access to the database.

The 67 county elections supervisors — who have final say over voter purges —are not moving forward with the purge for now because nearly all of them don’t trust the accuracy of a list of nearly 2,700 potential noncitizens identified by the state’s elections office.The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered the state to stop the purge.

“We’re just not going to do this,” said Leon County’s elections supervisor, Ion Sancho, one of the most outspoken of his peers. “I’ve talked to many of the other supervisors and they agree. The list is bad. And this is illegal.”




Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/07/v-fullstory/2838176/county-elections-chiefs-to-state.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. link

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/07/v-fullstory/2838176/county-elections-chiefs-to-state.html

[kpete]

2. thanks mahatmakanejeeves

fixed
peace, kp

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. I am confident ...

that there are a couple FBI/DOJ investigators quietly asking questions of these County Elections Chiefs, like:

"Who was the first person to call/e-mail you to express an opinion about your decision to not continue with the purge?"

I am confident that the FBI/DOJ believes what everyone knows (and even the gop base will tell you if you ask) ... these purge attempts and other voter suppression acts, all over the country, are being coordinated.

The question is, by whom?

[calimary]

4. I'm not so confident. We don't have a lot of people on our side who think deviously.

Therefore they're utterly unequipped to meet the challenge of those who do. Naivete abounds on our side.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. I couldn't disagree more ...

not acting deviously is not the same as not being able to recognize deviousness, especially in the law enforcement area ... that's what we did.

[amerciti001]

6. Rick Scott's next move is to fire...

All of the 67 County Election Officials in the State of Florida are all elected Officials, so this may throw a monkey wrench in the illegal purge of the Voters Rolls. The point is that if anyone that might come up for prosecution for violations of the federal laws would be the county officials, not Ricky boy himself. These people(i.e. Rick Scott, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, at.el.) are insane to try such a move now after the 2000 debacle. We Have Not Forgotten.

[Woody Woodpecker]

7. Prick Snott can't fire them

They are duly elected, and can only be removed by another election or a recall.

[Kencorburn]

11. True. Too bad the recall doesn't apply to state officials,

thanks to Jeb Bush, Florida doesn't have a recall process for state officials. So we are stuck with Thulsa Doom(minus the charisma) as our governor.

[HopeHoops]

8. I'm thinking all DUers need to get out of Florida so we can let it go away on its own.

The political crap there makes me wonder where they get their water. I KNOW where Delaware gets its water, but it doesn't make people THAT loopy. It just smells like a dark room (and give Corbett long enough and PA's will too). Something is seriously wrong all over the country. Our political system is broken and rules no longer apply. The judicial system is far from impartial. The federal government has little if any useful authority and too many states are stuck in a clusterfuck of stupidity.



I need a

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. The repubs on the low end of the totem pole are either seeing the lies their superiors are about

or are lying themselves to cover up their ongoing purging in secret.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kudos to the 67 county election supervisors, apparently you're the firewall protecting democracy

in Florida.



Thanks for the thread, kpete.