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The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Florida to stop itsefforts to purge voters from their voting rolls. The attempts tostop people in Florida from voting is illegal, since it violatesmultiple federal laws. "In Florida, where a few hundred votes can determine apresidential election, Republicans have never stopped searching fornew ways to keep ballots out of the hands of minorities and poorpeople, groups that tend to vote Democratic. They have cut back onearly voting, tried to stamp out registration drives, and imposedonerous identification requirements," according to the New York Times. Now Florida is responsible for violating federal laws with voterpurge efforts. The removal of voters less than 90 days before anelection is illegal. August primaries fall within that deadline.The second violation comes from Gov. Scott"s omission to getapproval for the list he is using, to make sure it is notdiscriminatory in nature. Since approximately 60 percent of thenames on Scott"s purge list are Hispanics, there is evidenceto suggest that specific groups are being singled-out for votingpurge. The first round of letters sent out to registered voters containedhundreds of errors. Citizens who were told they had 30 days toprove they were eligible to vote were in fact, U.S. citizens being wrongly removed from voting rolls. Some of the efforts to stop the voter purge is coming from insideFlorida, from local election supervisors. "It's illegal under federal law and I'm going to follow thelaw," said Leon County Supervisor of Elections, Ion Sancho. Since local election officials knew the voter purge was illegal, itraises questions as to how Gov. Scott could claim that he was alsonot aware of Florida"s illegal efforts. Florida has a poor history of protecting voting rights underRepublican Governors. In 2000, former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush Jeb Bush was suspected of voter roll tampering , in order to help his brother, George W. Bush George W. Bush , win the presidential race. After thousands of people were eitherblocked from voting or had their votes discounted, thegovernor"s brother won the state and the White House byapproximately 600 votes. According to many electoral college projections, Republicancandidate Mitt Romney Mitt Romney cannot reach the required number of electoral votes to win the2012 presidential election without winning the 29 at stake inFlorida. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. The voter roll purge in Florida appears to some to be an attempt byRepublicans to steal the election through illegal and unethicalmeans. The positions of Republican candidates and ideology of theRepublican Party is not popular enough to win an election withouttampering with votes. Claims of voter fraud have been used by Republican legislatures tochange voting rights laws in more than 30 states over the past 2years. However, there is no evidence to suggest that voter fraud isa problem. "You have a better chance of being hit by lightning thandiscovering an incident of polling place fraud," according to US News. The Brennan Center cited a study conducted under the George W. BushAdministration. "Because voter fraud is essentiallyirrational, it is not surprising that no credible evidence suggests a voter fraud epidemic." "There is no documented wave or trend of individuals votingmultiple times, voting as someone else, or voting despite knowingthat they are ineligible. Indeed, evidence from the microscopicallyscrutinized 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington Stateactually reveals just the opposite: though voter fraud does happen,it happens approximately 0.0009% of the time. The similarlyclosely-analyzed 2004 election in Ohio revealed a voter fraud rateof 0.00004%." Therefore, the argument of voter fraud appears to be anunsubstantiated creation of the Republican Party, which is using itas an excuse to cheat, because they lack confidence in theirabilities to win an election by playing fair and letting alleligible Americans vote. Florida Governor Rick Scott is no stranger to criminal activity. In 1997, whistleblowers said Scott was "lying when he says he did not know about fraud inhis former company, the Columbia/HCA hospital chain. In July 1997,FBI agents raided Columbia/HCA accounting offices in seven states,including Florida. Within days, Columbia"s board of directorsousted Scott." Scott paid millions in Medicare fraud fines, and was still electedgovernor of Florida in 2010. Related: Governor Rick Scott leads voter suppression drive in Florida. I am an expert from wellmedlab.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Medical Cotton Wool , China Gauze Dressings, Medical Respirators,and more.
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