Florida suspends heavily-criticized voter purge efforts until 2015

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Florida suspends heavily-criticized voter purge efforts until 2015
By Reuters
Thursday, March 27, 2014 19:29 EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott’s administration is abandoning its renewed effort to remove non-U.S. citizens from the voter rolls, the state’s top elections official announced on Thursday.

Secretary of State Ken Detzner, in a memo to county election supervisors, said the latest attempt at a purge, which two years ago set off a number of legal challenges from voting rights groups, would be postponed until next year.

He said the state planned to wait until a new federal database, which helps track potential ineligible voters, is up and running.

The decision comes after Scott, a Republican, faced heavy criticism over Florida’s attempts to identify people who are not American citizens on voter lists months ahead of the 2012 presidential elections.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/27/florida-suspends-heavily-criticized-voter-purge-efforts-until-2015/

[Kurovski]

1. Eh. maybe they figured they can steal enough votes without this particular ploy. (nt)

[kickysnana]

3. +1 Beat me to it. n/t

[elleng]

2. "until 2015"

in time for the next PRESIDENTIAL election!

[sakabatou]

5. Of course

[L0oniX]

4. Sick Rott is the all time worst Florida governor.

Calling him Batboy is flattery.



This is much better.

[secondvariety]

6. Most of the

Supervisor of Elections in urban areas were just ignoring Detzner. I figure the dumbass just caved.