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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: TideGlider who wrote (134141)5/31/2012 9:28:05 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (8) of 224699
 
Palm Beach, Hillsborough Counties Say No To Rick Scott’s Voter-Scrubbing Drive

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Two Florida counties are refusing to participate in Gov. Rick Scott’s scrubbing of the voter rolls because of inaccuracies in the list of suspected “noncitizens” the state is threatening to block from voting.

Hillsborough County — which has almost 700,000 registered voters — has decided to abandon its voting purge after finding that at least six local people on the list supplied by Tallahassee were in fact U.S. citizens in good standing. The county’s Supervisor of Elections Office had received from Tallahassee a list of 72 “noncitizens” in mid-April. The Elections Office sent each of those persons a certified letter saying they were ineligible to vote, and if they disputed that claim, they’d have to prove it.

When five of those people came forward with birth certificates and another with a passport proving they are citizens, the Hillsborough officials decided the whole enterprise was suspect. “At that point it was obvious it wasn’t very credible and reliable information, so we suspended any further action,” Craig Lattimer, the supervisor’s chief of staff, told the alternative weekly Creative Loafing:
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