Probing Voter Fraud (in Florida), Tea Party Tells Eric Holder to Stand Aside

[pampango]

A coalition of tea party groups is leading an investigation into possible voter fraud in Florida -- and telling the federal government to back off. ... Tea partiers say they will actively resist U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's recent demand that Florida stop purging noncitizens from the voter lists.

The tea party group wants to make it clear it is not engaging in what Democrats and other left-wing groups broadly brand "voter suppression." "We want everyone to vote who can vote legally," Tucker explained. "We just do not want to be caught in political maneuvering -- and used as pawns for some political purpose.

Liberal and libertarian groups see the problem differently. They point to federal courts that have blocked some of Florida's attempts at tightening voter-registration drives.

"The real fraud is in the counts. We need to go to paper ballots and public counts," says Alexander Snitker, the Libertarian Party's 2010 candidate for U.S. Senate.

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/probing-voter-fraud-tea-party-tells-eric-holder-stand-aside

Tea party groups want to make it clear that they are not engaged in 'voter suppression'. Right! I'm sure their investigation is mainly targeted at old, white conservatives.

[Grinlds]

1. Voter registration clean-up in Florida

Even in spite of precautionary order on the Department of Justice behalf, they still keep on removing non-citizens from the state's voter rolls in Florida! Yeah, now guess whose voters exactly 'clean-up' the Floridian Republicans, who've initiated a purge and currently turn being ready to stand for it even before the DoJ read Washington and note that Detzner has already rejected DoJ demand!? Well, what Republicans do in Florida - are forming state's voter rolls in needed especially them proportion... checking at that 91-year-old WWII (a man who gave his life's blood to this country!!) for citizenship and voter registration - (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/01/1096521/-Florida-tells-another-91-year-old-WWII-veteran-he-s-not-a-nbsp-citizen).... No comments.

So...here we're... promoting democracy, its values and principals all over the world, but in this country we are making a circus of it...

[EOTE]

6. Welcome to DU!

Yes, Florida seems to have a history of removing legal voters from the voter rolls. It's extremely sad and maddening, especially after what happened in 2000. As you say, we really need to make sure that democracy exists in our own country before we try to spread it anywhere else.

[Skinner]

7. Welcome to DU, Grinlds.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Holder's not demanding stopping the purging of non-citizens

He's demanding that election officials stop using the wildly inaccurate purge lists that are disenfranchising LEGAL voters.

The Tea Partiers should be applauding this effort, shouldn't they?

[MineralMan]

3. The Tea Party can't demand anything from Holder.

That's just bullshit, and Holder knows it.

[rbixby]

4. I think its a little too late for them to not be used as 'pawns for some political purpose' NT

[ck4829]

5. Wait, who made the Tea Party the official government of Florida?

They're not in the place to tell Holder what to do.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Well, thanks to low voter turnout in 2010, they did take the Governor's Mansion.

And got a few nasties elected to Congress and the legislature to boot.

[Blue Owl]

9. Please tell me he's gonna tell the tea party where they can shove it