Posted on 07/15/2012 2:42:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
TALLAHASSEE — A yearlong stalemate between Florida and Washington ended Saturday when the federal government gave the state access to a federal citizenship database, which the state will use to resume an election-year purge of noncitizen voters.
After repeatedly refusing, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed to open its database to the Department of State, which oversees Florida's voter registration system. The state will now cross-check the names of Florida voters against a federal citizenship database known as SAVE, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements.
It wasn't clear why Homeland Security changed course, and the department had no comment Saturday. But the reversal comes after a federal judge in Florida refused to halt purge efforts.
The news is a victory for Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who has said the purge is necessary to guarantee fair elections. Democrats and voter advocacy groups have criticized Scott for the action, saying it is aimed at Democratic-leaning voters in an election year. Some groups filed lawsuits to block it.
Within days, Florida will resume the laborious process of purging noncitizens from the list of 11.2 million registered voters. A previous purge based on a flawed list of 2,700 drivers with voter cards who were suspected of being noncitizens ended last month when county election supervisors decided the list was inaccurate and unreliable.
Holder cannot convert them into citizens. There’s a citizenship process, and also, no general amnesty has been declared for those that came after the last amnesty years ago.
However, precisely what Holder and DHS have done is refuse deportation unless they have serious felonies on their records. Of course they get to define “serious”. THen they will offer them work permits. So in effect what you have is resident and worker status.
That STILL does not qualify you to vote.
Believe me, if they had the power they would pass a general amnesty and thereby convey citizenship status on all of them that have resident status today.
Please tell that story!
Now the othe states need to do the same ASAP.
Cuz was going for medical work on election day. Got behind a bus with Ill license. It got off at Martin Lutheran Drive (Which can also be used to get to her work....It is local where interstate keeps one out of the neighborHOOD) She followed. She got the license number off the bus, called the SoS office. Rumor had it that buses were going from polling place to polling place....A similar bus was pulled over by state police on Indiana Avenue as she went home later that afternoon.
It happened before the year that sixty ballot boxes were lost.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735385/posts
2006 was also the year that indictments came down in Lake County/east chicago. 2003-04 election.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601673/posts
IIRC it was about that time that one of Indy’s precints got over 100% voter turn out....Same general area that the buses were spotted.
Check and see when IN voter ID bill passed...Coincidence....Don’t think so. We’re doing more then one thing to stop voter fraud.
Unfortunately IN allowed students to use State college issued ID...SO we had some out of state students vote in 2008. Look at the red/blue map of election results. Only blue areas were in cities with state colleges. Young Republicans are already working on state college campuses.
Even in-state college students could vote up to three times: (1) on-campus using college ID, (2) at their off-campus residence by showing a utility bill showing they lived there, and (3) at their parent's address using an absentee ballot.
Eric Holder needs to keep his Chicago Way, out of Texas!
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