Florida Governor to fight Department of Justice on voter purges

Riot · #1 06-06-2012, 11:40 AM

And in another state, as the Republican governor of Florida, the Medicare-thief Gov. Rick Scott follows his ALEC-plan orders to purge non-whites from the voter rolls before the fall election ...

With all the current attacks on women's rights and non-whites, it just makes you think it's the 1950's all over again in the GOP

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The Miami Herald is reporting that Florida Gov. Rick Scott will fight the Justice Department for his illegal voter purge. While the move to purge thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of voters from the rolls violates two voting rights laws, the state is defiant.

Justice has notified the state that it is in violation of both the National Voter Registration Act and the Voting Rights Act. The Voter Registration Act does instruct states to maintain clean voter rolls, but prohibits purging voters in the 90-day window before a federal election. The state's primary is in August, so they've missed that deadline. In addition, under the Voting Rights Act, the state is required to get preclearance for any changes to voting law from the federal government, because of the long history of racial discrimination in voting in five counties.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/0...ars-ready.html

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If there were any lingering questions that Rick Scott's motivation for purging voters,this should put it to rest. Former Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, who worked with Scott on cooking up with purge (and no stranger to voter suppression, having kicked minority and Democratic voters off the lists in 2008) has close ties to an astroturf group funded by, you guessed, it, David and Charles Koch. The guys who have committed hundreds of millions to defeat Barack Obama in November.

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Just before Browning was selected in 2011 by Scott as Secretary of State, Browning led a group called “Protect Your Vote Inc,” which was set up to oppose fair redistricting. One of the biggest checks to Browning’s organization came from the Center to Protect Patients’ Rights, which gave $100,000 in 2010. At the time of the donation, the source of the money was shrouded in secrecy. [...]

But as Republic Report exclusively reported last month, the Center to Protect Patients’ Rights is part of a universe of front groups financed by David and Charles Koch, the petrochemical billionaires, as well as several other billionaires, as part of an election-influencing effort. New reports this week about the brothers’ strategy indicate that they will now use this constellation of front groups to finance $400 million of a $1 billion campaign in outside money to defeat President Obama and congressional Democrats. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mitt Romney’s Super PAC, and several nonprofits controlled by Karl Rove, will furnish the other $600 million.