Thread: Report: Justice Dept. tells Fla. to stop purging voter rolls

May 31, 2012

Report: Justice Dept. tells Fla. to stop purging voter rolls

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY Updated 14m ago

The Justice Department is demanding that Florida stop purging its rolls of allegedly ineligible voters because the process has not been cleared under the federal Voting Rights Act, TPM is reporting.

The Justice Department says the continuing purge also violates the cut-off time stipulated by the National Voter Registration Act.

The notice came tonight in a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, TPM says.

The news comes after state officials earlier today admitted they might not be able to double-check whether up to 182,000 registered voters are U.S. citizens, the Associated Press reported.

Election officials had planned to use a federal immigration database to verify citizenship.

But local election supervisors complained that initial lists contained errors and had not been properly checked ahead of time.

Earlier today, Secretary of State Kent Detzner sent a letter the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stating the state was still unable to access to the database. He asked Secretary Janet Napolitano to help.

A Department of Homeland Security official said there are a "number of legal and operational challenges" to granting the state access.

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Dictator Obama and his henchman Eric Holder are clearly moving to use the power of the Executive Branch to protect tens of thousands of their illegal alien voters in Florida!

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Judge blocks parts of Florida voting law

Published May 31, 2012
Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A federal judge says some of Florida's new limits on voter registration drives are likely unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday temporarily blocked implementation until a trial can be held.

One provision requires groups or individuals signing up voters to submit their registration forms to election officials within 48 hours of collecting them.

Others impose what the judge called "burdensome record-keeping and reporting requirements that serve little if any purpose."

The ruling was a victory for the League of Women Voters and other groups that challenged the provisions.

They say the restrictions passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature are aimed at suppressing turnout. Republicans contend they are needed to prevent election fraud.

Those and other parts of a new election law also are being challenged in another case.

Judge blocks parts of Florida voting law | Fox News

Robert Hinkle
Current Court Information:
United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
Title:	Judge
Station:	Tallahassee
Service:
Appointed by:	Bill Clinton
Active:	8/1/1996 - Current
Chief:	2004 - 2009
Preceded by:	William Stafford
Personal History
Born:	1951
Home State:	Apalachicola, FL
Bachelors:	Florida State U., B.A., 1972
Law School:	Harvard School of Law, J.D., 1976

Robert Hinkle - Judgepedia

Obviously, Holder realizes that Obama desperately needs all 53,000 dead voters if he is to win Florida in November.

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Jun 1, 2012 DOJ orders state to halt purge of ineligible voters.

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DOJ to Florida: Don't You Dare Clean Up Your Voter Rolls


Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall

A simple way to help prevent voter fraud and election abuse is for states to purge voter rolls. What does this mean? Getting rid of names on voter rolls of people ineligible to vote such as illegal aliens, dead people, duplicates, etc. For nearly a year, Florida election officials have asked the Department of Homeland Security for access to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement database in order to take illegal aliens and non-citizens off Florida voter rolls. Not surprisingly, DHS has been dragging its feet and has yet to comply with the request and now, the Department of

Justice is stepping into the purging process and ordering Florida, a vital swing state, to stop.

The Justice Department sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Thursday evening demanding the state cease purging its voting rolls because the process it is using has not been cleared under the Voting Rights Act, TPM has learned.

DOJ also said that Florida’s voter roll purge violated the National Voter Registration Act, which stipulates that voter roll maintenance should have ceased 90 days before an election, which given Florida’s August 14 primary, meant May 16.

Five of Florida’s counties are subject to the Voting Rights Act, but the state never sought permission from either the Justice Department or a federal court to implement its voter roll maintenance program.

But who is really behind the letter? Mean radical DOJ attorney Elise Shore. Christian Adams has more:

What do we know about Elise Shore from the installment about the Voting Section?

Elise Shore. Ms. Shore came to the Voting Section by way of the “Southern Coalition for Social Justice,” where she worked as a legal consultant focusing on “voting rights, immigrant rights, and other civil rights and social justice issues.” The far left-wing positions of this group are nicely summarized on its website. Ms. Shore also made a $1,000 contribution to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Before joining the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, she worked for more than two years as a Regional Counsel for MALDEF [Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund]. There, she was an outspoken critic of Georgia’s voter ID law and well as its proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration (which, incidentally, have been found to be non-discriminatory by a federal court) and described how heartened she was that the Civil Rights Division had objected to the registration law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. But her joy must have been fleeting: the Division later capitulated and withdrew its objection after Georgia filed a federal declaratory judgment action. It will be interesting to see if Shore can put her politics to the side in her role as the Voting Section’s point of contact for all redistricting submissions in the state of Florida.

FLASHBACK: Florida says at least 180,000 non-citizens sitting on voter rolls

Florida election authorities are examining about 180,000 people who they say may not be U.S. citizens but are registered to vote in the state, an official said on Friday.

State officials are updating Florida's voter rolls ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. Florida is home to a large Latino population and is expected to be a critical swing state in the contest between Democratic President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Officials in Florida have so far identified more than 2,600 potential voters who may not be U.S. citizens and sent their information to local election authorities, Cate said.

DOJ to Florida: Don't You Dare Clean Up Your Voter Rolls - Katie Pavlich