Tuesday - June 12, 2012

Take Back Your Nation, 2

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) said he will sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to move forward with his controversial attempt to purge the voter rolls in his state of ineligible voters.

“I have a job to do to defend the right of legitimate voters,” Scott told Fox News on Monday. “We’ve been asking for the Department of Homeland Security’s database, SAVE, for months, and they haven’t given it to us. So this afternoon, we will be filing a lawsuit, the secretary of State of Florida, against the Department of Homeland Security to give us that database. We want to have fair, honest elections in our state and we have been put in a position that we have to sue the federal government to get this information.”

Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner produced the lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C. district court on Monday, shortly after, along with a statement.

“For nearly a year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has failed to meet its legal obligation to provide us the information necessary to identify and remove ineligible voters from Florida’s voter rolls,” Detzner said. “We can’t let the federal government delay our efforts to uphold the integrity of Florida elections any longer. We’ve filed a lawsuit to ensure the law is carried out and we are able to meet our obligation to keep the voter rolls accurate and current.”

Last week, the Department of Justice demanded Florida stop the voter-roll purge, saying it violated the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and was reliant on faulty Department of Motor Vehicle records to determine who is eligible to vote.

The Scott administration responded with a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying it would continue the voter-roll purge, and is now seeking the DHS federal database as a part of that push.

Shortly after Scott’s announcement, the DOJ responded with a letter to Detzner saying it was launching a suit of its own against the state.

Why is it that I’ve never noticed the federal government suing states before this President, nor have I ever noticed states suing the federal government in return? Now we have 27 states suing over Obamacare, the feds suing Arizona and Alabama left and right over illegal immigration, and so on. You’d think there was some kind of Socialist usurper in the White House enabling completely un-American activities all the time. And you’d be right.

Should Florida not be allowed access to the DHS database, whatever it may contain, then they will have to forge ahead using whatever information that they can access and rely on. And if some people get improperly disenfranchised, so be it. The onus will be upon them to prove that they are legal citizens and residents of Florida and get themselves re-registered. While the right to vote is national, the control of the rolls is at the state level. Isn’t it? Oughtn’t it? I’ve never heard of a national voter registration or a national voter ID card.

IIRC, the feds are claiming that a disproportionate number of darker people - blacks and latinos - are the ones getting purged. You know, exactly the same groups that were the focus of ACORN and the other phony voter registration groups for years and years. So it’s no surprise that a larger number of their numbers are improperly registered. That isn’t racism, that’s a plain truth.

I don’t know what the registration process in Florida is, but if they had the smarts, the time, and the money, I’d say now would be the best time to put a photo ID system in place. Maybe they should “force equality” and just dump the voter rolls entirely, and then make everyone re-register. Every single citizen. In person. And (after significant validation of course) give them all nice shiny new voter ID cards with their pictures on them, which would be required to be presented to vote.

It’s about damn time. Would that Florida only be the First of Fifty.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/12/2012 at 08:17 AM   
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