Florida to sue the federal government over voter purge efforts
The state of Florida is in the process of purging its voter rolls of dead people, felons, non-citizens, illegal immigrants, and others who are ineligible to vote in the state to ensure that a free, fair, and legitimate vote takes place in a state which might likely be the key to electing our next president. This did not sit well with Eric Holder and the Department of Injustice and the state was ordered by the federal government to halt its attempt at purging the voter rolls.
The issue at hand here is a federal law which states that all voter rolls must be set at least 90 days before an election and all purging must cease before that period, but Florida has a primary election in August so the Department of Injustice is arguing that Florida is in violation of federal law. And the federal government has a case here, but it is in part due to the fact that the federal government may have gone out of its way to ensure the voter purge couldn’t have been completed in time to meet federal regulations.
Florida Governor Rick Scott claims the state has been trying for a year to get the information from Homeland Security it needed to complete the voter purge on time but–much like Fast and Furious–the Obama regime has been stonewalling the effort so today the state has filed a lawsuit against the federal government:
I have a job to do to defend the right of legitimate voters,” Scott told Fox News on Monday. “We’ve been asking for the Department of Homeland Security’s database, SAVE, for months, and they haven’t given it to us. So this afternoon, we will be filing a lawsuit, the secretary of State of Florida, against the Department of Homeland Security to give us that database. We want to have fair, honest elections in our state and we have been put in a position that we have to sue the federal government to get this information
Here is what Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner had to say earlier today:
For nearly a year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has failed to meet its legal obligation to provide us the information necessary to identify and remove ineligible voters from Florida’s voter rolls,” Detzner said. “We can’t let the federal government delay our efforts to uphold the integrity of Florida elections any longer. We’ve filed a lawsuit to ensure the law is carried out and we are able to meet our obligation to keep the voter rolls accurate and current.
When this goes to the courts will the courts consider why Florida wasn’t able to complete the voter purge on time, and take into account the federal government’s role in the delay, or will the court simply declare the state in violation of federal law? I think it is highly likely Florida will lose this lawsuit and the voter purge will be stopped in its tracks, but it does bring to light how low the Obama regime will sink in order to win reelection. The Obama regime knows Florida is a swing state and when Homeland Security learned Florida was going to purge ineligible voters from its roles it appears as if the department purposely stonewalled the information request knowing it would put Florida in violation of federal law.
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Isn’t the MO of this administration to stall and drag their feet? Would you expect it to be any different for Florida to get a decision from the Feds on the database they are requesting? They know exactly what they are doing and WE are allowing them to get away with it. Do you think there is ANYTHING that will change the minds of the loyal Obama voters at this next election? I am so sick of it so blatantly being thrown in my face, the nerve this administration has, knows no bounds, it appears.
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I fully understand your frustration Lou because I feel it also. We know what they are doing and we are powerless to do anything against it and it is maddening. I hope that the most people see this as well, but we cannot rely on the media to inform them, can we?
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Oh, yeah! This is the news I wanted to hear. Even if Florida loses in court, and I don’t know why they should, the puplicity just might make honest voters who were on the fence on whether to vote for obama again, to tip toward Romney. Plus, I enjoy seeing Holder on the hot seat again.
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It is fun seeing Holder challenged, isn’t it? I think that even if FLorida loses at least it will shine a spotlight on the issue of voter fraud and the lengths Democrats will go to ensure it happens.
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This Administration doesn’t want a purge. I took a lot of Obama Cash from the Obama Stash to get those unlawful voters there in the first place.
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Got any proof? Or just the wild assumptions and wink wink nudge nudge that passes for proof among the disaffected nowadays?
The fact is that if these “purges” result in the elimination of valid voters from the rolls, and those voters don’t learn of it until Election Day, then the real purpose of those purges will have been fulfilled – to disenfranchise legitimate voters from the rolls.
I don’t know how accurate the Governor’s claims are, but if they’ve been trying for a year to get data from HS for this purge, that means that they waited 2 1/2 years after the last General Election before deciding to clean up the rolls. The process takes a while, yet they twiddled their thumbs for over two years.
And now they’re struck with this sudden sense of urgency – because, apparently, the last few purges didn’t strike enough valid voters.
The deadline has passed – the law says they may not purge the rolls within 90 or fewer days before an election. They need to leave things as they are and resume the purge after the General Election in November.
And oh – as to concerns about voter fraud – I still haven’t heard of a single case of a person trying to vote when or where he or she shouldn’t. Except for Ann Coulter, of course, and even that was more a case of ignorance than fraud. The fact remains that despite all the whining and the millions of dollars being spent trying to intimidate legitimate voters from voting, nobody’s ever proved that someone entered a polling station and fraudulently cast a ballot.
And the one voting method that is very vulnerable to fraud – absentee balloting – remains unaddressed by the self-proclaimed defenders of the sanctity of the ballot. But of course, the overwhelming majority of absentee ballots are GOP, aren’t they. Kind of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Nah, I didn’t think so.
Take good care, and may God bless us all!
TGY
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Anonymous? I’m not anonymous, I’m the Georgia Yankee! A single speck of blue in a sea of red!
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TGY, from what I have read Florida is sending letters to those people in question before purging them from the list, so if they show up on voting day unaware they have been purged more than likely they probably aren’t eligible to vote.
As for making wild accusations, aren’t you doing the same by claiming the Republicans want to purge eligible voters from the rolls?
Don’t most states automatically purge their rolls ever so many years? In New Hamsphire the purge is done every ten years, isn’t it possible that Florida didn’t twiddle their thumbs for two years but started the purge when it came up for a routine purging? With their being an election every two years it seems as if it will always be close when it comes to stopping 90 days before an election and it seems like the feds helped to ensure FLorida wouldn’t finish.
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I had covered, over a year ago, that Holder had announced that he wasn’t going to enforce the part of Motor Voter that requires states to purge the rolls. I assumed it was to facilitate fraud. I also assume that this effort is much the same.
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And I thought the AG was charged with defending and enforcing all laws of the US, I guess I was wrong!
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It’s the Chicago way why would we expect anything different?
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Yeah, I really didn’t expect anything else.
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Go Florida!
It’s high time that the states fight back against the ever encroaching federal government..
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Thank you!
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