ACLU Sues Over Florida Voter Purge

[SunsetDreams]

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Florida over Gov. Rick Scott’s voter-list purge.

The purge, being run by Secretary of State Ken Detzner, is intended to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls but has improperly snagged many legitimate voters. The Justice Department says that the purge violates both the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act, but Florida officials haven’t backed down.

The ACLU suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, is on behalf of two Florida residents — Murat Limage, a Haitian-American U.S. citizen, and Pamela Gomez, a Dominican-American U.S. citizen — as well as the Mi Familia Vota Education Fund. Detzner is listed as the defendant.

“The illegal program to purge eligible voters uses inaccurate information to remove eligible citizens from the voter rolls,” Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU’s Florida affiliate, said in a statement. “It seems that Governor Scott and his Secretary of State cannot speak without hiding what they mean in political spin. They mislead Floridians by calling their illegal list purge ‘protecting citizen’s voting rights.’”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/aclu_sues_over_florida_voter_purge.php?ref=fpb

[UTUSN]

1. R#1 & K n/t

[elleng]

2. Good to see BUT

their efforts are probably actually not needed, as County Election Supervisors have stated they will not implement this, Governor has no power to do so. Would be GREAT to see Florida defend by ARGUING this!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014138116

[freshwest]

3. My concern is that if the purge is stopped, will Scott/Koch will able to finagle not counting votes

From those counties in November?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Oh good! I sent emails to them too about this.

I sent them to DOJ, ACLU, White House, and BarackObama.com

[Doctor_J]

5. Since they're ignoring the DoJ, this is useless

OTOH, so are all of our other tactics, so let's all clap for the ACLU's latest symbolic waste of time and money

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Only the zombie governor is, the County Election officials are complying.

The toilet paper namesake governor is alot of sound and fury signifying the nothingness of the RW lunatic fringe.

[Thinkingabout]

7. It would be good to show the ratio of Dems to repubs

This would make it apparent what was happening.