Gov. Rick Scott: voter purge lawful, feds are wrong and breaking the law
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wayneflorida, in Speakers Corner
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billvon 2,998
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>Like the left SWAT...ing coservative bloggers?
Couldn't parse that one, sorry. Take a look at Newsmax again and see how they spelled it.
Couldn't parse that one, sorry. Take a look at Newsmax again and see how they spelled it.
jcd11235 0
QuoteSoory, I must have missed your answer. How many votes did Bush win the election by in 2000? What State was tht in. again? So now the State tries to do something to prevent it from happening again by making sure it's voter roles are accurate and you don't like that either.
Don't look now, but you just implied that Bush won Florida via voter fraud!
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No I didn't. I pointed out how important it is to have accurate vote counts because many elections can come down to just a few votes.
jcd11235 0
QuoteNo I didn't. I pointed out how important it is to have accurate vote counts because many elections can come down to just a few votes.
So, what, exactly, happened in the 2000 election that Florida trying to prevent from happening again? If you're not suggesting Bush's win in Florida was due to voter fraud, then what are you suggesting? That by disenfranchising thousands of voters, a close election is less likely?
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rehmwa 2
QuoteQuoteNo I didn't. I pointed out how important it is to have accurate vote counts because many elections can come down to just a few votes.
So, what, exactly, happened in the 2000 election that Florida trying to prevent from happening again? If you're not suggesting Bush's win in Florida was due to voter fraud, then what are you suggesting? That by disenfranchising thousands of voters, a close election is less likely?
disenfranchising military absentee votes did seem to keep it pretty close - so it is a proven technique
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tkhayes 348
QuoteNo but I think it's OK to update the voter rolls and take people off who have moved out of State or died.
No problem with that either - but that is NOT what is happening in FL if Scott gets his way. he will purge first, then ask people to 're-register' effectively. Go through the roles and get rid of the non-citizens. Go through the roles and get rid of dead people by all means.
DO NOT remove someone who is alive and well just because they 'might' be illegal.
rushmc 23
Quote>Like the left SWAT...ing coservative bloggers?
Couldn't parse that one, sorry. Take a look at Newsmax again and see how they spelled it.
google it
spelled it correctly
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
rushmc 23
Quote>Like the left SWAT...ing coservative bloggers?
Couldn't parse that one, sorry. Take a look at Newsmax again and see how they spelled it.
Here
another way I have seen it spelled
SWAT-ing
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77292.html
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
QuoteSoory, I must have missed your answer. How many votes did Bush win the election by in 2000? What State was tht in. again? So now the State tries to do something to prevent it from happening again by making sure it's voter roles are accurate and you don't like that either.
you think this question supports your stance, but really you have it backwards. This voter purge is clearly targeted at voters that are far more likely to vote for the Democrats. Doing it just before the election, when it's too late for people to 1) see that it happened and 2) reregister in time, really shows an attempt by the GOP to ensure they can still win by 400 votes, just as they did in 2000 after doing another inappropriately broad voter purge.
QuoteAt first, Florida specified only exact matches on names, birthdates and genders to identify voters as felons. However, state records reveal a memo dated March 1999 from Emmett "Bucky" Mitchell, a lawyer for the state elections office who was supervising the felon purge, asking DBT to loosen its criteria for acceptable matches. When DBT representatives warned Mitchell that this would yield a large proportion of false positives (mismatches), Mitchell's reply was that it would be up to each county elections supervisor to deal with the problem.[4]
In February 2000, in a phone conversation with the BBC's London studios, ChoicePoint vice-president James Lee said that the state "wanted there to be more names than were actually verified as being a convicted felon".[5][6]
On 17 April 2001, James Lee testified, before the McKinney panel, that the state had given DBT the directive to add to the purge list people who matched at least 90% of a last name. DBT objected, knowing that this would produce a huge number of false positives (non-felons).[7]
Lee went on saying that the state then ordered DBT to shift to an even lower threshold of 80% match, allowing also names to be reversed (thus a person named Thomas Clarence could be taken to be the same as Clarence Thomas). Besides this, middle initials were skipped, Jr. and Sr. suffixes dropped, and some nicknames and aliases were added to puff up the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File
I don't oppose the notion of voter purging. But as I've said before, it should be done the year prior to the election, and it certainly shouldn't be done in this broad 80% manner as described for the 2000 purge. That's treason, imo. And we already see with the current travesty- hundreds out of 2700 confirmed to be legal voters, inappropriately tagged. How many will be denied the right to vote this year? Will that be enough to give Romney the win in a state that has been very tight for the past 3 elections?
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voter-registration/voter-reg.shtml/
"8. You must be registered for at least 29 days before you can vote in an election."
DaVinci 0
Quotea big part of the problem with you disappearing for a week at a time and resurrecting dead threads is your inability to keep context in your mind.
1. I have a life outside of here.
2. My context is correct. It is not my fault you do not recall conversations.
QuoteQuotea big part of the problem with you disappearing for a week at a time and resurrecting dead threads is your inability to keep context in your mind.
1. I have a life outside of here.
2. My context is correct. It is not my fault you do not recall conversations.
another content free response.
I believe the SC made the final determination. Oh, wait, that's right, unless they side with Democrats, they are biased and deserve to be mocked and ridiculed.
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