Democrats: "We have an app. for that!"
Posted on 07/14/2012 1:56:17 PM PDT by kingattax
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a victory for Republicans, the federal government has agreed to let Florida use a law enforcement database to challenge people's right to vote if they are suspected of not being U.S. citizens.
The agreement, made in a letter to Florida Gov. Rick Scott's administration that was obtained by The Associated Press, grants the state access to a list of resident noncitizens maintained by the Homeland Security Department.
The Obama administration had denied Florida's request for months but relented after a judge ruled in the state's favor in a related voter-purge matter. Voting rights groups, while acknowledging that noncitizens have no right to vote, have expressed alarm about using such data for a purpose not originally intended: purging voter lists of ineligible people.
They also say voter purges less than four months before a presidential election might leave insufficient time to correct mistakes stemming from faulty data or other problems.
Democrats say that the government's concession is less troubling than some GOP-controlled states' push to require voters to show photo identification.
But Republicans count it as a victory nonetheless in their broad-based fight over voter eligibility, an issue that could play a big role in the White House race.
That's especially true in pivotal states such as Florida, Colorado, Nevada and North Carolina.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Rick Scott is 20 times the governor he’s given credit for.
This will be a processed "database", where anybody that ever took a prior primary D ballot, or ever contributed to a D, or shows any inclination of being D, will have been removed from it
Excellent, and kudos to the folks in Florida for trying to do the right thing.
Awww, nanny nanny boo boo...
For those of us in states where there are no local election judges (they went bye-bye when we got switched to “vote-by-mail”), our one and only hope of clean voter rolls lies with one PERSON, -—the Secretary of State. Here in Washington state, our SOS is a Rino who bends over backward to help the Democrats, and no way does he want the voter rolls cleaned up. The Liberal old goat has been in office for decades, and he’s finally retiring, so if we can get someone honest in the office, maybe we can finally get the fraudulent voters off the rolls. It’s so bad, we have hundreds of supposedly homeless bums registered, all listing the address of the elections Dept. as their address.
For the purposes of this thread, I am a Florida resident and we elected a conservative as our Governor and at the very least, right leaning RINOs through the down ticket. Detzner is already moving forward to sending out a new list based on what they receive from DHS. But I expect DHS to now start a technical stonewalling game. The one trump card Detzner has is to withhold certifying the Florida results because of any stonewalling.
Crap, here we go again!
When IN first started cracking down on Voter Fraud. The SOS office informed ALL county clerks to inform ALL precints in the state that he had hired a large number of observers to stop by polling places at random. They were his agents. We weren’t visited but heard several in Indianapolis were.
Sounds like FL needs to do the same thing.
I was a poll watcher at the last three general elections. We had to go through training and be ID’d.
This year I will be a poll worker because we had some shenanigans at particular precincts in the last Mayoral election. Looks like the press knew the participation percentage of them days before the election. It will be an interesting day.
Voter fraud is Nobama’s only hope of winning.
Democrats: "We have an app. for that!"
reminds me of the leftard argument against the death penalty: “it costs more to execute than to have life in prison”
(well, duh- when you give unlimited , tax-payer funded appeals and most on ‘death row’ are there for 20 years, of course it does!)
reminds me of the leftard argument against the death penalty: “it costs more to execute than to have life in prison”
(well, duh- when you give unlimited , tax-payer funded appeals and most on ‘death row’ are there for 20 years, of course it does!)
In Florida many of them are running for reelection. The biggest problem has always been in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and the cities with universities. These are also the areas where voter drives have registered illegal aliens to vote, and dead people continue to be on the rolls.
Must be tough to balance the actual goal of letting anyone vote as often as they want with the "official" noncitizens have no right to vote appearance.
“...to challenge people’s right to vote if they are suspected of not being U.S. citizens....”
Hey AP...if they’re....NOT...citizens....They don’t HAVE a “right to vote”...
I keep thinking if we say it slowly enough, and maybe loudly enough,they’ll get it.
Whoa! Rational retort alert! /sarc. The Rats are lacking the logical, ethical, and moral consistency gene. They got an extra chromosome that leads to Stockholm Syndrome.
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