Gov. database shows only 207 ineligible FL voters
TALLAHASSEE --
Florida officials spent months insisting that some 2,600 people on the state's voter rolls were actually not US citizens and needed to be purged from the rolls. They even fought the federal government over the right to access a special database so they can prove it.
But after getting access to that database, Florida discovered that only 207 people were not citizens and should not have been voting.
The announcement came on the same day that the state reached an agreement with voting groups challenging the purge.
Under the agreement, the state will contact the remaining 2,400 voters and tell them that they are still eligible.
The state did get one win on the voting front this week.
This week the Obama administration also agreed to a proposal to reduce the number of early voting days in five Florida counties covered by the federal Voting Rights Act.
The Justice Department decision ends a lengthy battle over a controversial election law passed by the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature last year.
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there are only 207 eligible voters in Florida and they all have the last name of scott.
