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September 28, 2012

Florida Restarts Controversial Voter Purge 
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Florida has resumed its controversial efforts to purge voters from the
rolls less than six weeks before the November election. Officials in
Florida recently said they'd used a federal immigration database to
identify about 200 non-citizen voters. That number marked a significant
downgrade from Florida's initial claim of nearly 200,000 possible
non-citizen voters that was later reduced to a few thousand. The names
of about 200 supposed non-citizens have been sent to local election
officials, but there's evidence even people on that list are citizens
who have been mistakenly targeted. The Miami Herald reports one Latino
immigrant ended up on the purge list even though he'd already sent proof
of citizenship to officials during the first round of voter purging this
summer.

 

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