Posted on 07/14/2012 1:57:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
Earlier this year, the Obama Administration attempted to block Florida Governor Rick Scott's efforts to purge ineligible voters from Florida voter rolls. A review of drivers license data turned up 2,625 suspected ineligible voters. But the DOJ tried to stop the state from acting on this information.
Nearly two months later, and after getting smacked down by a judge, the Obama Administration is being ordered to help Florida clean up state voter rolls. This past week, the Department of Homeland Security agreed to let Florida access a law enforcement database to prevent non-citizens from voting.
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 Department of Homeland Security. 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.
It's not perfect. SAVE, or the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements can only identify people with an 'alien number', such as a green card holder or someone who has a work visa-in other words, people who are here legally but cannot vote. Those who are here illegally still slip under the radar. Still, Governor Scott told the AP that this is a "significant victory for Florida and for the integrity of our election system".
Officials in othe states such as Colorado are also seeking access to the SAVE database. Colorado's secretary of state, Scott Gessler says he wants to check the status of 5,000 registered voters.
Probably the same excuse they can use to send Thousands of automatic Rifles to Drug Gangs in Mexico
Naturally.
...but they are taking away any legal barriers to challenge the count.
For whom are they taking away any legal barriers to challenge the count? Themselves or the Pubbies? Please explain.
Oh how I wish we still had local voting in precincts, with local people who knew who lived there manning the polls. When we got “Motor-voter” (you’re automatically registered to vote when you get a driver’s license), we now only have “vote-by-mail”, and now have no idea who and where votes are coming from. The Democrats in our state are as crooked as they come, and have a habit of “finding” boxes of additional ballots after the ballots are counted, and they’re behind. They somehow always manage to find boxes of ballots until they win. It’s obvious they have them all ready to “find” ahead of time in the event they’re needed. (And isn’t it amazing that hey’re nearly always all Democrat?)
Now that is mighty white of them.
My point is if the state of Florida could not access the database to check names of ineligible voters.... when the dems challenge the 2012 election as I am sure they will if it is another Bush -Gore type race....Their legal standing would be weakened...
What judge would give the dems standing if they did not allow Florida to check the federal database or in other words how can the dems claim their voters were disenfranchised if Florida was never allowed to check their status?
By allowing the database to be checked... The dems an now say all voters were checked and a legal challenge can be made....without any push back from the GOP saying the federal government impeded them...
There’s no doubt that Democrats are desperate beyond measure.
Legal resident aliens have "green cards."
It wouldn't be their legal standing that would be weakened. "Standing" has a specific legal meaning: you have standing when you have sufficient interest in the events complained of that you are eligible to be a plaintiff. No court would toss their case on a ruling of lack of standing.
What you mean, if I understand you correctly, is that the 'Rats substantive case would be weakened if feds did not allow allow Florida to inspect the list of (a relatively small subset of illegal) voters and to delete those names from the voter rolls accordingly. Still, 'Rats being 'Rats, they would surely concoct several other grounds for challenging the results; remember how they claimed that the butterfly ballot discriminted against Gore?
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/SOE/supervisor_elections.shtml
The reason we see so many older folks being poll watchers, or working at the polls is because it is difficult for working folks to take election day off. Back when I was teaching, I used to take a sick day on election day to help out at the polls. Either helping or holding signs for my favorite candidates.:)
And yes, I had the fun of checking for “hanging chads” back during the 2000 election period. Volunteered two weeks for the recount! What fun!! Was great the best man won!!
Here's hoping lots of patriots work the polls this time around to help make sure only those who have the legal right to vote actually vote!!
By the way, most Floridians should have received their new voter card. Take note of your District changes and precinct changes if any. And tomorrow, 16th is the last day to change Party affiliation. Primary Election Day, Aug. 14th, will be here before we know it! Get to know your District changes and Congressional candidates here:
And maybe balance out the black panther presence. I don't think Florida will put up with it if the cops get called, even in Miami-Dade.
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