Florida Governor to fight Department of Justice on voter purges

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

The DOJ has a vested interest in squelching any attempt to rid the state of illegals voting.

That's Community Organizing 101 at Harvard.

Get as many votes by any means necessary, regardless of how unethical it may be. ACORN was his baby, wasn't it?

ACORN was a hysterical wet dream of the right. All ACORN did was register voters. Seems all the nasty lies about ACORN, that resulted in the defunding, were just ... lies. And no, ACORN was not "Obama's baby".

If you still believe the gullible "hate the black guy" made-up and long-disproven crap from 2008, that's your problem.

And your completely ridiculous made-up scenario about buses, illegal aliens comprised of field workers, and cartons of Newports as vote buys has nothing at all to do with Scott illegally stripping registered voters off the voting roles.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Riot

And your completely documented scenario about buses, illegal aliens comprised of field workers, and cartons of Newports as vote buys has everything to do with Scott judiciously stripping illegally registered voters off the voting roles.

Much better.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Much better.

But it's not true, is it?

No governor can remove your voting rights. People didn't die in vain for this basic American right. It didn't work for George Wallace, and it won't work for Rick Scott.

Scott is stripping people off the roles - using arbitrary discriminatory indicators such as race, voting party, address - then demanding they prove they are citizens to get back on. That's illegal. They are already legally registered voters.

He is doing it within 60 days of an election. That is also illegal.

The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Acts were passed in 1964 and 1965, and they still stand as the law of this country. No matter how much somebody hates brown people.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Riot

But it's not true, is it?

No governor can remove your voting rights. People didn't die in vain for this basic American right. It didn't work for George Wallace, and it won't work for Rick Scott.

Completely

[Rudeboyelvis]

Riot - The only reason you are all of a sudden so passionate is because you know there are tens of thousands of "registered" voters down here that are illegal - either they are not citizens, or they are ex cons and thus have conceded that privilege.... And you also know every single, solitary one of them is without question or qualification, an illegal vote for Obama. And you have no problem with it. That's it. Don't lie.

It's hilarious to watch you try and wrap yourself up in the constitution after you expended countless posts defending your boyfriend's abolishment of it.

It's great. Good for you

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Riot - The only reason you are all of a sudden so passionate is because you know there are tens of thousands of "registered" voters down here that are illegal - either they are not citizens, or the are ex cons and thus have conceded that privilege.... And you also know every single, solitary one of them is without question or qualification, an illegal vote for Obama. And you have no problem with it. That's it. Don't lie.

It's hilarious to watch you try and wrap yourself up in the constitution after you expended countless posts defending your boyfriend's abolishment of it.

It's great. Good for you

Who are you yammering on to? Me? No. Felons on paper cannot vote. Felons off paper can vote. Illegals cannot and should not be able to vote. American citizens - even if they are a color you don't like - can vote.

And no, I've not defended Obama for what he's done to the Constitution, in fact much the opposite.

I'm sure your gross generalized assumptions serve you well with knowing "who to hate" in the simplistic, black-and-white world you live within, but don't confuse your rambling imaginings for accurate fact.

[Riot]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has created a list of more than 180,000 registered voters who must now prove their citizenship, or lose their right to vote.

Scott used a Department of Motor Vehicles database to identify groups of voters he wants to purge from voting records, if they cannot provide proof of citizenship within 30 days of receipt of a letter from the state.

However, many of those being told they may be ineligible to vote, are citizens who have been voting legally for decades.

A 91-year-old veteran, Bill Internicola, was among the first group of 2,600 Florida voters who received letters saying that they needed to prove they were American citizens, or be purged from the voting rolls.

The Brooklyn-born, decorated World War II veteran, appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday and called the letter, “insulting.”

Internicola, a registered Democrat, said he had been voting since he was 18 years old, and had been voting as a Florida resident for the past 15 years.

“The list of "ineligible" voters is riddled with errors and includes hundreds of eligible U.S. citizens." According to Think Progress, “Scott’s list is heavily targeted at Democratic and Hispanic voters.”

Voters who fail to respond in the 30 day time period will be removed from registration forms and refused the right to vote.

“Already, 359 people on the list have provided the county with proof of citizenship and 26 people were identified as U.S. citizens directly by the county.

The remaining 1,200 have simply not responded to the letter informing them of their purported ineligibility.”

This is not the first time Florida has been the center of questionable voting practices. Before the 2000 Presidential Elections, Florida took more than 7,000 names off the voting rolls, mostly Democrats, and George W. Bush won the state by fewer than 600 votes.

Scott has been at the helm of additional voter suppression efforts. Earlier this year, the Florida governor signed a new voter ID law that requires photo identification for all voters. Early voting, which made it easier for veterans and the elderly to cast their ballots, was also cut from 14 days to 7 days.

The sad fact, especially in this state, is that universal suffrage is anathema to a certain political party. Their perfect world would be restricting voting to white male property-owners between the ages of 45-70 with a net worth of seven figures or more. ID not required; just tell them you're a good ol' boy.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

The sad fact, especially in this state, is that universal suffrage is anathema to a certain political party. Their perfect world would be restricting voting to white male property-owners between the ages of 45-70 with a net worth of seven figures or more. ID not required; just tell them you're a good ol' boy.

They are in a panic, they know the oncoming demographic changes. This is the first year that "white" isn't the number one color of newborn American babies, and they are freaking out.

It's pathetic, racist and sad.

[dellinger63]

How about no representation without taxation?