Posted on 06/02/2012 8:36:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
A simple way to help prevent voter fraud and election abuse is for states to purge voter rolls. What does this mean? Getting rid of names on voter rolls of people ineligible to vote such as illegal aliens, dead people, duplicates, etc. For nearly a year, Florida election officials have asked the Department of Homeland Security for access to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement database in order to take illegal aliens and non-citizens off Florida voter rolls. Not surprisingly, DHS has been dragging its feet and has yet to comply with the request and now, the Department of Justice is stepping into the purging process and ordering Florida, a vital swing state, to stop.
The Justice Department sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Thursday evening demanding the state cease purging its voting rolls because the process it is using has not been cleared under the Voting Rights Act, TPM has learned.
DOJ also said that Florida’s voter roll purge violated the National Voter Registration Act, which stipulates that voter roll maintenance should have ceased 90 days before an election, which given Florida’s August 14 primary, meant May 16.
Five of Florida’s counties are subject to the Voting Rights Act, but the state never sought permission from either the Justice Department or a federal court to implement its voter roll maintenance program.
But who is really behind the letter? Mean radical DOJ attorney Elise Shore. Christian Adams has more:
What do we know about Elise Shore from the installment about the Voting Section?
Elise Shore. Ms. Shore came to the Voting Section by way of the “Southern Coalition for Social Justice,” where she worked as a legal consultant focusing on “voting rights, immigrant rights, and other civil rights and social justice issues.” The far left-wing positions of this group are nicely summarized on its website. Ms. Shore also made a $1,000 contribution to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Before joining the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, she worked for more than two years as a Regional Counsel for MALDEF [Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund]. There, she was an outspoken critic of Georgia’s voter ID law and well as its proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration (which, incidentally, have been found to be non-discriminatory by a federal court) and described how heartened she was that the Civil Rights Division had objected to the registration law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. But her joy must have been fleeting: the Division later capitulated and withdrew its objection after Georgia filed a federal declaratory judgment action. It will be interesting to see if Shore can put her politics to the side in her role as the Voting Section’s point of contact for all redistricting submissions in the state of Florida.
FLASHBACK: Florida says at least 180,000 non-citizens sitting on voter rolls
Florida election authorities are examining about 180,000 people who they say may not be U.S. citizens but are registered to vote in the state, an official said on Friday.
State officials are updating Florida's voter rolls ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. Florida is home to a large Latino population and is expected to be a critical swing state in the contest between Democratic President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Officials in Florida have so far identified more than 2,600 potential voters who may not be U.S. citizens and sent their information to local election authorities, Cate said.
Does not the Constitution state that it is up to the states to control their own voting laws?
That's something I think we take for granted ... that what we get, everyone else gets too ... an' that jus' ain't so
The restrictions to (southern) states under the Voting Rights Act has roots going back to slave days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act
These goose-stepping tyranical fascists had gone far enough at the start of the fuehrer’s reign as head of the Central Socialist Government!
The house needs to be cleaned sooner rather than later (as the Clintonian fascists were wont to say.)
Down with Obomba’s reich! Down with tyranny! Down with the killers of America!
If this means war, then damnit make the most of it! We’re so busy building other people’s nations who are too lazy to do it that we forgot how to defend our own nation!
It is now time for states to ignore any instructions from the Department of Justice, period. Enough open disregard and this DOJ becomes the racist joke that it really is.
They can't use the "device" word.
Exactly. When the slaves got the vote, they were forced to vote Democrat. They do so today out of habit and fear. That cycle has to be broken. Their families voted Democrat, so they vote Democrat. I think what is happening today is that they are learning that this admin lied to them and they don’t like it.
Just appoint a black conservative to oversee the voter list cleanup and H0lder will go away.
How is this NOT illegal????
So, where is the GOP ad decrying the White House support of voter fraud?
The laws are written to be selectively enforced.
DOJ also said that Florida’s voter roll purge violated the National Voter Registration Act, which stipulates that voter roll maintenance should have ceased 90 days before an election, which given Florida’s August 14 primary, meant May 16.
Does this mean no registration as well?!!
Removing someone from the rolls who might still be alive is no big deal. If the person is still processing oxygen on the planet, they can go in and complete a "provisional" ballot on election day. Most DemocRATS drive around on election day filling out "provisional ballots" all over the place anyway.
Serve the whole bunch of commies in the Bozo administration evicton notices on Nov 6.
FL needs to tell DOJ to Bugger - Off!!!
We are going to remove ALL deceased citizens from our FL Voting rolls, ALL illegals from our Voting rolls and make sure that ONLY LIVING AMERINC CITIZENS VOTE IN FLORIDA!
GO GOVERNOR SCOTT AND SECRETARY DETZNER!
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So what happens if the State of Florida just ignores the Justice Department and keeps on purging the voter rolls?
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