Meet Maureen Russo: An Eligible Florida Voter Governor Rick Scott Just Purged From The Voting Rolls

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14. There was a similar story in my local newsrag this morning.

Link: http://www.theledger.com/article/20120525/POLITICS/120529540/1410?Title=Voter-Purge-List-Appears-Flawed

The Lakeland Florida Ledger reported that at least nine of the twenty-one voters purged had citizen status. The remaining twelve are being looked into. The criteria used for the purge by Scott's office appears to be their Hispanic names according to the article.

From Page 3 of the article ... Scott has come under criticism from Democrats and a coalition of voting-rights groups who have asked him to stop the statewide effort to purge voting rolls.

One criticism is that it's mostly Democrats who are the target of the purge. Other election supervisors have pointed inaccuracies in lists sent to them, and some have balked at acting on the information provided by the state.