elleng (31,811 posts)
More info: Judge refuses to block Florida voter purge.
Still don't have entire gist of his decision, from the bench; need transcript for that, but this article gives a bit more substance.
'Hinkle in ruling from the bench said federal laws are designed to block states from removing eligible voters close to an election. He said they are not designed to block voters who should have never been allowed to cast ballots in the first place.
Although "questioning someone's citizenship" is not a trivial matter, Hinkle also said that non-citizens should not be allowed to vote.
"People need to know we are running an honest election," said Hinkle, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton.
Gov. Rick Scott, who first initiated the push to identify non-citizens on the voter rolls, praised Hinkle's decision.
"The court made a common-sense decision consistent with what I've been saying all along: that irreparable harm will result if non-citizens are allowed to vote," Scott said in a statement.
But during the court hearing, an attorney representing the state said Florida has voluntarily stopped pursuing a longer list of voters it has identified as potentially ineligible.
State officials already asked local election supervisors to check out the citizenship status of more than 2,600 voters. It also has a list of 182,000 voters it has not yet distributed.'
http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2012-06-27/Judge-refuses-to-block-Florida-voter-purge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002864000Once again we have a situation where the courts rule one way, and the 0bama administration will do everything they can do to block the implementation. The ruling said that, yes FL can purge, but they have to use the federal data base that Holder refuse to give them access too.
monmouth (19,487 posts)
1. And hopefully election supers will continue to ignore the purge nonsense...n/t
Yeah non citizens voting is just nonsense that we should ignore. You can bet your ass if they were prone to vote for repukes the DUmp would want them purged.
lpbk2713 (21,174 posts)
2. Scott is a weasel.
His motivation is so obvious anyone can see through him.
Yeah the nerve of wanting only citizens to vote. Next thing you know he require people to have a valid license to drive a car.
southernyankeebelle (6,369 posts)
3. Everyone but republicans can see this is voter suppression. I just hope and pray dems
will get the opportunity to get even.
Only you idiots who want the votes of illegals to count are against this. Latest poll 60% of people that live in FL agree with the purge.
EFerrari (163,718 posts)
13. The difference is, Dems can point to instances of qualified voters
being disenfranchised. Republicans can't show non-citizen voting is a problem because it isn't. Remember, Bush assigned a US attorney to find voter fraud in New Mexico and fired him because he didn't find any. That's the facts.
Oh well I was wrong, if Beth says that illegal voting doesn't happen then it must not happen.
Ugghhh so much stupid in that thread. The thing is all the crying and screaming they are doing is in for nothing anyway. There is no way Holder will give Scott access to the database, Holder is hellbent on protecting the voting rights of illegals.
