The head of the Florida Republican Party acknowledged Thursday that his state's controversial purge of the voter rolls is relying on flawed data.
"There are certainly some issues with the data," GOP chair Lenny Curry told MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Thursday. "But we can fix this."
The purge, which was ordered by the state's Republican governor, Rick Scott, is being conducted based on DMV records. Its stated goal is to remove non-citizens from the rolls, but it has already ensnared several U.S. citizens.
Bill Internicola, a decorated 91-year-old World War Two vet, received a letter saying he was ineligible to vote, and is required to present identification papers to be reinstated. Voting rights advocates say that thousands of other legitimate voters stand to be similarly removed from the rolls, and may not go through the laborious process of getting reinstated.
"Based on the initial results, there are potentially 35-40,000 Floridians, eligible voters, who will be tossed from the voter rolls," Rep. Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat, told Roberts, adding: "This is the most brazen attempt that I've ever seen to suppress the participation in our democracy."
On Wednesday, Curry released a statement comparing the purge to efforts to combat drunk driving by stopping drivers.
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I do, however, agree with the motive.
Well imagine that!
A bald-faced attempt by a bald-headed Republican white guy trying to corrupt the Amerian electoral system. That old machiavellian liar Richard Nixon would love Lenny Curry and his band of conservative criminals.
Florida is the new Arizona.
Nixon would ... until, given the profilng being used by Lord Voldemort's minions, his friend BeBe Rebozo was scooped up.
Ofcourse we shouldn't purge the voting rolls, dead people and illegals have rights too. How else would Dem-o-rats get ellected
Ofcourse we don't want purge the voter rolls of dead people and illegal aliens, that unfair. They have rights also. How, if this was acheive would Dem-o-rats ever win an election???
The Florida officials don't want to go through the same hassles as they did before when Bush Jr's brother helped rig the results in 2000. This time they'll make sure the people they don't want voting are conveniently removed from the list prior to the election. That way they won't even need to do set up police roadblocks on election day to "check for proper registration and insurance".
It never fails to amaze me that, when conservatives want to do something like this and actually clean out ineligible voters that cannot, by law, vote in our elections, that the liberals get all uppity about it. I mean... come on. Do you democrats think it's actually acceptable to have illegal aliens and dead people on the voter rolls?? This creates a BIG credibility issue for you libs. BIG one. I am sure that this is a big job (especially in Florida) and would never go without a problem or two. Give the system time to work, dems. Unless you WANT dead people and illegals voting...
Gov Scott needs to go!
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Handbook: How GOP Can Steal Elections: Conyers Report Exposes Ohio Playbook, Items Listed
Here is the list of how the Election was compromised from Conyers report. I look at these findings as a HEADS UP on how the mostly Republican states could try to compromise votes in 2012. Why not? They got away with Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.
Pre-Election Tactics
Election Day Tactics
Post-Election Tactics
Take our country back - to the time when only white anglo-saxon protestants who were males and owned property could vote.