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To: TideGlider who wrote (490180)	6/7/2012 10:08:38 AM
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Non-citizens Voting in Florida? Purging them from voter rolls is no easy task. JUNE 7, 2012 4:00 A.M. By Katrina Trinko In Florida, state officials are encountering stiff resistance to their efforts to take non-citizens off the voter rolls. The Sunshine State’s recent history provides a compelling case for why voter rolls must be accurate: In the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush won the state by a mere 537 votes. So last year, when Florida officials realized there was a way to check voter rolls to make sure every voter was a citizen, they jumped at the opportunity. Because the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles tracks the legal status of those who obtain driver’s licenses — i.e., whether the license holder is a citizen or legally present through a visa or some other method — officials were able to compare this list with the list of registered voters. It wasn’t a foolproof method: Someone could have been a legal alien at the time he obtained a driver’s license and yet could have become a citizen by the time he registered to vote years later. Still, the comparison between the voter-registration records and the driver’s-license records seemed like a reasonable starting point. And it revealed that up to 180,000 Florida voters were potentially not citizens. Continues... nationalreview.com