DOJ files lawsuit against Florida for voter purge
Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott, previously known as the private businessman record-holder for Medicare fraud before he was elected governor of the state with the largest population of elderly in the country (yeah, that's ironic, heh) is being sued - well, the state is - for his illegal attempts to remove American citizens from the Florida voter rolls.
Florida delivered the 2000 Presidential election to George Bush by a few votes. Rick Scott has apparently promised Mitt Romney a much larger margin.
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida and the Florida Secretary of State in his official capacity alleging that the state has violated its obligations under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
The complaint, filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, alleges that Florida has violated the NVRA by conducting a systematic program to purge voters from its voter registration rolls within the 90-day quiet period before an election for federal office established by the law.
In addition, the complaint alleges that Florida’s use of inaccurate and unreliable voter verification procedures violates the requirement in Section 8 of the NVRA that any such program be uniform and nondiscriminatory.
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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/June/12-crt-746.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...op-voter-purge |
