UPDATE: FLORIDA GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT OFFICIALLY DEFIES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, VOWS TO CONTINUE VOTER PUR

[Jane Eyre]

13. Email exchange

I just read the ongoing email exchange between the Florida Secretary of State's office and the Dept of Homeland Security. The Sec of State wants to check the voter rolls against a DHS database to weed out non-US citizens. DHS apparently tells them, in so many words, that the only way that the cross-check would be accurate is by using ID numbers assigned to the non-citizens in the DHS database. And if the person provides the Sec of State with that ID number, then that person has already provided proof that they are non-citizens.

Soooo....the Sec of State's office is all huffy about not being able to get access to the DHS files, which the DHS seems to be leary of providing to them since it doesn't appear that the matches are going to be terribly accurate. (At least, that is what I am reading between the lines here.) And the Sec of State decides then to use whatever database that they happen to have lying around the Florida statehouse to do what they want to do anyway.

In other words, if the Feds won't let us use their database to purge people from the rolls just because we all know that the matches won't be accurate, we will just have to find our own database to do the job. And it's all the fault of the Feds because they wouldn't let us screw this up using their lists so we had to use our own lists to screw it up!!