[BITList] purge

[x50type at cox.net]

Another sneaky way republicans attempt to win an election, simply have voters on the opposite side taken off the voters rolls!
[yes, even if you are 91, was awarded the bronze star and chevalier legion of honour in the battle of the bulge.]
and you had heard that republicans were so patriotic!

bush43 won by a similar strategy in 2000 – again in florida when some voter punch cards were not punched ‘properly’ by democrats and so declared void.

ct


PS  This so called ‘purging’ is going on in the USA in the 29 states where republicans are in power. 


War hero, 91, among the Floridians purged from voter rolls
By Brittany Wallman and Kathleen Haughney / Sun Sentinel (MCT)
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - Added 4 hours ago

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Using an American war veteran as the face of their cause, two South Florida congressmen called on the governor Tuesday to immediately stop the state’s purge of the voter rolls.

And in a separate move, Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson sent a letter to the governor expressing his own concerns about the voter purging.

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, and U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, accused the Republican governor of using the roll cleanup as a ruse to disenfranchise voters just months before a presidential election.

Sitting in the retirement village in Davie where he lives, 91-year-old Bill Internicola listened Tuesday as Deutch read from a piece of his recent mail:

“The Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office has received information from the state of Florida that you are not a United States citizen; however you are registered to vote.’’

Internicola said he was amazed and a little insulted when he read the letter. He earned the Bronze Star as a medic in the Battle of the Bulge, and was honored by France with its Chevalier Legion of Honour. His wife, Dolores, was indignant herself.

“Tell them only in Florida could this happen,’’ she called out to her longtime husband at a news conference Tuesday.

The World War II Army veteran and lifelong Democrat was given 30 days to prove his citizenship or be stricken from the rolls. The letter he received was one of 2,600 sent to voters throughout the state in recent weeks, to keep non-citizens from participating in elections.

Another 52,000 people possibly dead were identified by the state as active voters, and local elections offices are purging them as well.

The targeting of non-citizens came directly from Gov. Rick Scott, The Associated Press reported last week, quoting former Secretary of State Kurt Browning.

Nelson, in his May 25 letter, cited the Browning revelation and told Gov. Scott that the public’s “confidence in the right to vote is essential in a democracy.’’

He said he was concerned about what he called the governor’s “hunt’’ for non-citizens, after “signing one of the nation’s most controversial voting laws.’’

The Republican-led Legislature last year overhauled election law, reducing early voting periods and tightening the rules for groups who register new voters. Democrats at the time said the changes would disenfranchise minorities and young voters.

The partisan bickering underscores the tense political atmosphere of a presidential election year in Florida. Though, 2,600 voters doesn’t seem like a lot, the 2000 contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by 537 votes, a bit of history noted by the congressmen Tuesday and by Sen. Nelson in his letter.

And with presidential politics heating up, Florida is primed once again to be the center of attention. A Quinnipiac Poll released last week gave GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney a six point lead over President Barack Obama








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