This is in response, I am quite sure, to the current issue between our State of Florida and the DOJ and cleaning up our voter rolls (which our governor is moving forward with. You should know, from what I have been told, Miame-Dade County has the most illegal aliens and they are refusing to clean up their rolls. Shameful. I am grateful we have a governor with some real backbone that is doing the right thing to true our voting.
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Q: What is Florida going to do to in response to the Department of Justice’s letter? Florida will continue to protect the rights of citizens to vote. That includes, but is not limited to, ensuring the voter rolls are accurate, and forwarding credible and reliable information whenever such information is discovered. Florida is also continuing to demand access to the federal SAVE database, which is the most accurate database available for verifying voter citizenship status.
Q: Why is the Florida Department of State removing voters from the voter registration rolls? Florida’s Department of State isn’t removing anyone from the voter registration rolls. Only independent elections supervisors in each county may remove voters from the voter rolls. But Florida elections officials have an obligation to protect the right of eligible voters to cast a ballot, and that includes preventing non-citizens from participating in an election. County elections officials are required under state and federal law to remove ineligible voters (such as non-U.S. citizens) from the voter database whenever credible and reliable information is presented to them.
Q: Why is Florida acting now? The process to remove non-U.S. citizens from Florida’s voter database actually began in Spring 2011. A few months later, in September 2011, Florida elections officials asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. After waiting several months to gain access to this database, Florida initiated the process to remove ineligible voters based on the best information available to the state. The states of Colorado, Michigan, and North Carolina have also requested access to the SAVE system for a similar purpose. But the federal government has yet to grant access to the system.
Q: What is the process Florida is using to identify non-citizen voters? Florida is currently waiting for the federal government to grant access to the SAVE database in order to verify that non-citizens will be removed from the voter rolls ahead of the 2012 election. Without access to this data, or some new evidence from other sources (such as court records or other official documents) that can identify non-citizens, the federal government is preventing Florida from identifying and removing non-U.S. citizens from the voter rolls.
When a state motor vehicle and driver database containing citizenship information was matched with a list of registered voters, Florida identified more than 182,000 potential non-citizens listed as registered voters. Without access to the federal government’s SAVE database, Florida elections officials refined the data using state information and sent an initial list of 2,600 potential non-citizens to county election supervisors for further review and action.
County elections supervisors have a legal obligation to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls whenever presented with credible and reliable evidence, however, each county supervisor has the independent authority to determine how best to proceed with the information presented to them. County supervisors have acted responsibly. To date, there are zero reported cases of anyone being wrongly removed from the system.
find more questions and answers here: http://www.flgov.com/2012/06/06/frequently-asked-questions-about-pr...=
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