State won't try to force 48,000 voters off rolls ((((Florida))))

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TALLAHASSEE - Florida's top election officials conceded Tuesday that they will take no legal action to force the state's 67 election supervisors to remove nearly 48,000 voters who have been identified by the state as potentially ineligible to vote.

This means the fate of these voters, some of whom appear to have been wrongly placed on the list, will be up to the election supervisor in each county, many of whom have been hesitant so far to remove any voter from the rolls. Some supervisors have said they were unsure if they had the time or staff needed to independently verify the background of voters prior to this fall's elections, but other supervisors have moved ahead anyway.

''If the Legislature had wanted to put in a time frame and a deadline it could have done so,'' said Dawn Roberts, director of the Florida Division of Elections, adding that the state lacks any ''authority'' or ''mandate'' to force elections supervisors to act.

The statements on Tuesday came at a ''tutorial'' arranged by Secretary of State Glenda Hood, in which she and other state officials defended the state's $2 million central voter database, developed in the wake of the chaotic 2000 presidential elections.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9093023.htm

[Paradise]

1. Interesting! Thanks! :) n/t

[gatlingforme]

2. It's also interesting that these people on the list do not speak

up and do something???? What is up with that? How come this list was not addressed a long time ago? The elections of 2002 spoke volumes of what the apathy is like in Florida, sadly as it is.

[Cheswick2.0]

3. These are 48k new people potentionally struck from the rolls

What about the thousands who were dropped from the rolls in 2000 and still have not been reinstated? What is florida doing about that?