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Feds to Florida: halt non-citizen voter purge
 The Justice Department ordered Florida's elections division to halt a systematic effort to find and purge the state's voter rolls of noncitizen voters.Florida's effort appears to violate both the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities, and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act -- which governs voter purges -- T. Christian Herren Jr., the Justice Department's lead civil rights lawyer, wrote in a detailed two-page letter sent late Thursday night. State officials said they were reviewing the letter. But they indicated they might fight DOJ over its interpretation of federal law and expressed frustration that President Barack Obama's administration has stonewalled the state's noncitizen voter hunt for nine months. "We are firmly committed to doing the right thing and preventing ineligible voters from being able to cast a ballot," said Chris Cate, spokesman for Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who was ordered by Gov. Rick Scott to conduct the search for potentially ineligible voters. Just the simple fact that Holder doesn't want the non-citizen voters off the rolls says TREASON. Obama and the dhims will not play fair, because they will lose. The blatant attempt to hold onto power shows them as the tyrants they are. There might be a legitimate reason for stopping a purge, but it's incumbent on the DoJ to make clear what that reason is in the letter. From what I've read, they cite the law without explaining further. That won't cut it. Posted by: DarthVader 2012-06-01 |
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