Purge Voters From Their Voter Registration : Florida

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has ordered the State of Florida to try to halt a worrying purge voters from their voter registration, which eventually deny the participation of legitimate voters, especially Hispanics in the 2012 elections.

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The federal government made the warning that the process of checking the lists of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles with the Voter Registration System of Florida to rule voters would violate two basic laws:

• The Bill of Rights Voter Act 1964 and
• The National Voter Registration 1993

The Floridian authorities response has been to challenge the federal and continue the process of digging listings and decanted through a sieve, which is also independent advocacy organizations of voters considered questionable. The federal government has been adamant in pointing out that it is illegal voter registration lists, which are purged 90 days before an election and in the case of Florida are being violated terms with the primaries to be held on August 14.

Inquiries made by the Miami Herald of Miami and The Tampa Bay Times, have shown that the purge has disproportionately affected Latino voters and Democratic voters. A Herald analysis found, among a list of 2,600 potential voters considered to be ineligible by the state, that about 60% were Hispanic.

The media has revealed that the electoral authorities of Miami-Dade, 1.570 sent warning letters to potential voters irregular of which the third party said in an expeditious manner as citizens, with undeniable right to vote. This mess was started by Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, who asked the state election system manager Kurt Browning, who purged the lists to remove registered voters who were not citizens. Suddenly, it is projected that 182000 individuals would be enrolled illegally in the list of voters of Florida.

The figure could be interpreted as trivial in a universe of about 12 million Florida voters, but every vote is precious in the state that decided the 2000 presidential election by just 537 votes, when the census was also purged. Florida is not an isolated case: the voting rights advocates say that across the country there is a movement to undermine the voting power of minorities.

32 states have proposed legislation to issue and present voting compulsory photo identification to cover, something that has not been a national tradition. Opponents of the project argue that the objective of the legislation is to exclude African, American and Hispanic precincts.