In a radio interview today on WFLA-FM, Governor Rick Scott of Florida admitted that when he tried to vote in 2006, he found that his name had been removed from the voter rolls.
As the story goes, Scott (before he was governor), was apparently taken off the voter rolls because another Rick Scott (no relation) had passed away earlier that year. It was an identity mix-up. While talking with WFLA host Preston Scott about his current efforts to keep the voter rolls from becoming "diluted" by noncitizen voters, Governor brought up his personal difficulty in the voting booth.
Starting around 7:50 -
"... I had to vote provisionally because they said I had passed away. And so – I said, “Here’s my driver’s license, I’m here,” and you know, “I’m really alive,” and so they allowed me to vote provisionally. And they went back and checked and said, I was alive. And so, we’ve got great due process – we want people that are US citizens to vote, we just don’t want their vote to be diluted by non-U.S. citizens. It’s illegal, it’s a crime.”
Scott shared this story in order to help justify his efforts to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls. The distinction here is that Scott was eventually able to vote, albeit provisionally -- even though the poll workers could not find his name on the rolls. His name removal was a mistake. The Governor's current crusade to keep the voter rolls from being "diluted" questions the citizenship of tens of thousands of people, many of whom are eligible voters, then threatens to remove their names from the voter rolls if they do not prove their citizenship.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that most county officials will not comply with the Governor's voter roll purge. But officials in Lee and Collier counties will remove 25 voters within the next few weeks if the voters do not respond to mail requests and a newspaper notice.
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Judging from the way that guy looks, I'm not sure he wasn't really dead. He could easily pass for a vampire (Bat Boy) or a zombie.
Nah, not dead, just soulless.
He is Lord Voldemort so of course he is not dead. A wicked, wicked, wicked (did I mention wicked?) man.
To tell more would be giving #Spoilers.
Newsflash... Scott doesn't need to justify efforts to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls. Is this blog in favor of voter fraud?
He has to justify why he's doing it a) badly, b) from faulty data, c) in a biased manner, d) in an election year too close to the election (banned by law, by the way), and e) targeting minorities and Democrats.
@Shooter,
The law states that it can't be done too close to an election.
It is too close to an election, so it can't be done and be legal.
This blog is not in favor of voter fraud.
No in-eligible voters should be allowed to vote.
All US citizens who are eligible should be allowed to vote.
The effort underway in Florida is to remove an unknown number of ineligible voters from the list of registered voters, but may remove thousands of eligible voters.
I don't hear anyone saying that the voter registration lists shouldn't be improved. The question is How and When
They removed a 92 year old WWII Vet,from voter rolls, good job there Teapublicans!
The state has already conducted a due process "purge" of voter rolls. This is done on off-election years, so as not to interfere with the election process. Do you STILL believe this purge is NOT being conducted for underhanded and partisan reasons?
Of course he thinks it's on the up-and-up; Shooter doesn't care about whether something is fair, or legal, or reasonable, as long as it benefits the GOP. If he was any further in their pocket, he'd be paying his rent with lint.
So if you can't purge, clean,validate voter rolls too close to an election, wouldn't it make sense to prevent registrations too close to an election also?
I shouldn't feed the troll but Florida has a slight history of voter abuse.
read this ye teatard trolls
http://seniorsforademocraticsociety.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/greg-palast-on-the-stolen-presidency-part-i/
Ah, now I see proximity problem. I also see the Federal Govt broke the law by denying access to Homeland Security information.
The problem here is the left's willingness to have open elections with no vetting at all. That isn't going to fly. If you don't like this system or voter ID, you're going to have to offer up something else that verifies citizenship. And no, we're not taking anyone's word for it.
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/06/06/4067424/feds-erred-in-demanding-florida.html
According to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative mouthpiece... not exactly a neutral source. And actually, open elections are JUST THAT; no vetting, no politicized restrictions, none of that. They've flown for years, through thick and thin, and it's only now that the GOP has decided that it won't work; maybe because they know that people can call them on their bullcrap. It's only the GOP that is hating on the practice of democracy; perhaps y'all would be more comfy in Russia, yes?
"Grumpy" doesn't do you justice.
Haha shooter.. fail troll is full of fail.
The heritage foundation was on cspan they don't have a clue about legislature. They want to allow The big Oil companies to drill wherever they want in the ocean. The Tea Party should have at least read a little before they started on their crusade funded by Big Oil and the Koch Brothers. Why don't these dudes just run for office. instead of having every Republican official in their pocket. If you research each of them on Wikipedia they all get handouts from these large Corporations. The Tea Party is a front and they've decided to take the fascist far right with them.
You're right, Shooter, grumpy is a pale word to describe how I feel when people try to disenfranchise people in a blatant, illegal, and biased manner that they claim is in the interest of the state but only benefits them. I'm much more than "grumpy" when people use bought-and-paid-for mouthpieces to distort the truth and support their lies, pretending that black is white and vice versa. I'm pretty well hacked the f*&k off, to be frank. And if you had a righteous bone in your body, you would be too.
Newspaper notices, great idea... why don't they use the telegraph, or the Pony Express, or smoke signals, or other means of notification as relevant to modern life as newspapers?
What, you mean not everyone pours over the classifieds like Sherlock Holmes? Gadzooks!
(I should say 'gadzooks' more often, and I don't know why.)
What a terrific word - "Gadzooks" - you can get some real FEELING into it.
Everyone should use it more - IMHO
ReservoirAngel used the word "rip-snorting" the other day - another excellent word!
How about holey hole in a donut. I know I'm a dork.
I don't live in Florida. I have no pain.
And as the rest of the story goes, he was so upset that he vowed to become the governor of this great State and revert to being the Evil Sinister Villain of the story. He's insane , look at his eyes. They oughta finish the story for him and put the cuffs on him or the white coats.
Unfortunately, his administration does NOT allow for a "provisional" vote, like he was afforded in 2006. When you receive the notice that the state does not believe you are a valid voter, you are responsible for making an appointment for a "hearing" to prove they are wrong. This is the most backward and arbitrary way of usurping democracy that I have ever seen or heard of.
It's like The Spanish Inquisition. or The Bishop in Monty Python. A Kangaroo court. That may have been spelled wrong, ah, yes I thought I changed it. That's a womens' perogative, you know.
I wish someone would tell Rachel to look this up
In my mind - two days after Obama was born in Hawaii, the Hawaiian newspaper had a small item that a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Obama. I could be wrong but I believe he was born in the evening of August 4, 1961 (my daughter's birthday). That was too late for the next morning newspaper - so it was in the August 6th paper. Rachel has the ability to research this to make sure that what I remember is correct.
If so, THIS SHOULD SHUT UP THE LYING BIG MOUTHS. But the repugs would say that his parents put that in the paper because they KNEW he would grow up to be President.
Please ask Rachel to research this.
Thanks
Jenny
And then they made the movie "Guess whose coming to dinner." That was good ole Spencers' last. What a Teddy Bear of a man.Next.
@Iodine99
I hate to tell you this, but that has been brought up and included in all of the "Birther" debate nonsense.
Unfortunately, there seems to be nothing that will get some people to change their mind.
The only thing that might actually work is for the Republican leadership - including Romney - to come right out and refute the nonsense. But it is apparently not going to happen.
On the same topic - just to show how nuts these people are:
Remember when Donald Trump was going on and on and on and ...etc. about President Obama's Birth Certificate that said "Certificate of Live Birth" and how that is NOT THE SAME AS A BIRTH CERTIFICATE???!!! When Gov. Romney released his Birth Certificate - it's posted on line - guess what it says. {drum roll} "Certificate of Live Birth". {{deafening silence from"the Donald"}}
Hypocrisy? From the GOP? Say it ain't so... *rolls eyes*
All the birthers obviously need to be reborn.
to conservatives it makes perfect sense for them to live by one set of rules while everyone else lives by another more restrictive rule sets. It's all about freedumz and such...ya know, THEIR freedom...not YOURS. In a way it makes the perverse attraction to Ayn Rand's silly "philosophical novels" make sense for adult wingnuts. Most anyone else who thought Ayn Rand's writing was cool or brave or in some way realistic and prescient was going through puberty which is commonly a very selfish period in a persons life. But for conservatives, the emotional building stops there...so even though Rand's idiocy can be debunked over and over the central concept of "Ubermensch" being deserving of more rights and liberties than anyone else still impacts their tiny cortexes...
Those on the right are obviously totally convinced that their Ideological Soundness/Theological Correctness makes them so "special" that they entitled to whatever they want.
Granted, what Governor Scott is doing is wrong, but I'm happy that I live in Maine where we have same day registration. :D
Thus, we the people have a safeguard in case our names mistakenly get taken off the list.
Teabaggers are targetting Maine for these ALEC-created "model legislation" measures...you guys better be on your toes. In Oregon we're a vote by mail state...drives the 'baggers nuts with their phoney "voter fraud" paranoia and causes...it's funny how the only major cases of documented voting fraud recently came from Jimmy "drop the soap" O'Keefe and that wingnut doofus Secretary of State (har, har) in Indiana...isn't it?
Maggots they are.
Well since Rick Scott is the worst kind of corporate criminal then his behavior makes sense. Now, reading this you might ask yourself, "what makes him the worst kind of corporate criminal?" simple enough...he committed crimes worthy of and deserving prosecution. He knows it and so does anyone close to him but he was allowed to get off by the Bush Admin the old "I resign so therefore I am not expelled" procedure (see Delay, Tom). This in turn allows him to "reinvent" himself as a teabagger (the single group of people most likely to defer to ANY corporate CEO) and runs for office. But what was neo-tricky Dick up to between being ousted as Columbia HCA and becoming a politician? Trying to turn medical clinics into McDonalds...he was scheming to open up a series of drive-through style medical clinics (which would be opened in Walmart, natch) when suddenly his dream was in jeopardy because of the ACA because the ACA would get the uninsured coverage, Ricky boys target demo to swindle er, care for. So, never one to let someone else's ability to become healthy disway him when looking at HIS ability to become stinking rich he started this anti-health reform group and became a politician. Kind of amazing isn't it? This is why he's the worst kind of corporate criminal. Also, it's why Floridians are very, very dumb...