Four Citizens Thrown Off Florida’s Voting Rolls
Florida Governor Rick Scott has embarked on an extensive effort to purge individuals from Florida’s voter list, Think Progress reported. 1,638 people in Florida received letters informing them that they are ineligible to vote.
2. Maureen Russo
Russo, 60, is a dog groomer and small business owner who registered to vote in Florida four decades ago. She will be removed from voter registration rolls unless she requests a hearing to prove her citizenship.
3. Bill Internicola
Internicola, 91, is a WWII veteran from Brooklyn who has been informed, “[You] are not a citizen.” Though he has been voting in Flordia for 14 years, Internicola is ineligible to vote unless he provides the Supervisor of Elections with proof of citizenship.
4. “Ineligible” Voter With His Passport
Seminole County Supervisor of Elections tweeted a photo of himself with a passport-holding Florida voter who received one of Governor Scott’s letters.
Archibald Bowyer
Bowyer, 91, a WWII Navy corpsman, moved to the United States as a 2-year-old and has lived in Tampa, Fla. for over 30 years. In an interview with Tampa Bay Online, he speculated as to why he was put on the list of ineligible voters: “When I have to put down where I was born and I say Canada, people assume, he’s a foreigner.”
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kea718 a year agoI wonder if the people who are talking about how many people were purged of their voting rights in Miami-Dade have ever actually been there. I’m from Miami and the fact is there’s a very big problem with illegal Immigrants. Miami-Dade is different than just about any other city in the nation in that it is predominantly Hispanic (a huge amount of Cubans but also other countries from South America and Latin America). Only 4 people (non from miami-Dade, have come forward saying they got a letter in error, but of course nobody is paying any attention to that part. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find that every single one of the Miami-Dade resident who were purged of their voting rights were illegal because that’s the way Miami is. We do have a legitimate problem here with people voting illegally but everybody just wants to cry foul at the Government instead of realizing that there is a problem in Miami with illegal residents.
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Eamon Daly a year agoThe title is misleading. Over four hundred people who were notified that they’d be dropped have since been verified as citizens. In the counties shown here, that’s a twenty percent error rate and climbing. The pictures are just four examples. Also, as a correction, far more than 1,638 people were notified: that’s just Miami-Dade alone. The actual number is somewhere around 2,600.
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Almost ready a year ago
These are four of the citizens that were unjustifiably thrown off. There are many others. There are at least 300-plus in Miami-Dade. Seriously, look at the damn chart, you morons. It’s called critical thought.
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The Angry Luddite a year agoJust to be clear, my reactions are directed at Florida Governor Rick Scott.
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