Florida’s Scott Rolls Political Dice With New Voter Purge

[Purveyor]

By Toluse Olorunnipa - Aug 9, 2013

Republican Governor Rick Scott is restarting his high-profile purge of suspected noncitizens from Florida’s voting rolls in a move to appeal to core supporters that risks losing the backing of key swaths of the electorate.

Scott, seizing on the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of a main element of the Voting Rights Act, has revived one of his administration’s most contentious missions: rooting out noncitizens from Florida’s list of 11.8 million voters.

While the move to fight fraud may burnish Scott’s appeal to Republicans, strategists say, it risks reviving memories of polling-place snafus in 2012 and alienating the state’s growing Hispanic population. The purge, which began before the 2012 election, stalled when several U.S. citizens were targeted and a Latino-advocacy group sued, claiming discrimination.

“For both parties, the discussion about purging the voter rolls is all about turning out the vote for next year,” said Susan MacManus, who teaches politics at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Yet the risk remains for Scott, she said. “The voter fraud versus voter suppression debate is alive and well in Florida, and there’s no sign of it going away.”

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[LiberalFighter]

1. There needs to be a direct oversight of this to ensure it is done right.

They should be required to provide the list and then each county should provide the results of their verification process. There should be a detail record of those that remain, removed for death reasons, moved, errors, ect.

It should also be publicized as to how they determine a person is a non-citizen. Based on how they did it last year they didn't know if the persons were or were not. They just made a wild guess. There has to be a defined criteria such as they were born in a different country as a starting point.