Obama's Victim Campaign Sets Sights on FL's Illegal Voter Purge
By Joshua Hutchison | Published Jun 1, 2012 | Immigration911.org
Washington, DC – The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the state of Florida to halt all efforts to remove illegal voters from the voting rolls until it can review the procedures the state is using to assemble its list. This way, the administration can make sure the state is not discriminating against minorities.
This comes on the heels of Attorney General Eric Holder's speech Wednesday to the Congressional Black Caucus' Faith Leaders Summit on Voting Rights, in which Holder told black church leaders from around the country that discrimination in America is still commonplace. As a result, he said he will continue to vigorously defend the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Voting Rights Act requires federal approval of changes to voting laws in a number of southern states who have a history of discrimination, which the Obama administration has used at every opportunity to block recent voter ID laws passed in states where the law applies. Just recently, the administration blocked voter ID laws in both Texas and South Carolina, citing minorities are less likely to have photo ID than whites. Thus, they said the states could not prove the laws were indiscriminate.
This is likely the same logic the administration will use in Florida's case with the same result. Considering a list of non-citizens illegally registered to vote will naturally contain few white people, you can bet the administration will use its racial makeup as evidence that the state is discriminating against minorities. That drumbeat is already hitting hard and steady from the left as liberal media outlets—who instinctively pick up and sprint with any narrative that will help shoulder the mantle of victimization in this country—have begun their efforts to convince the public that they are victims of yet another GOP assualt on civil rights.
However, there are a few glaring facts that beg a few questions regarding the administration's motives—hence the drumbeat. It tends to be loud and distracting.
Florida election officials first noticed the possibility of
severe voter fraud taking place in their state after their DMV turned over a large data-set containing the population's residency information in early 2011. Under the direction of their Governor Rick Scott, election officials sampled that data and ran some preliminary checks that suggested they had a huge problem with non-citizens registering to vote. As a result of these initial queries, they increased the sample size and ran additional checks, which ultimately allowed officials to narrow their estimate of illegally registered voters to 180,000. That is when the state reached out to the federal government to help sort out the mess.
However, according to the office of Ken Detzner, Florida's Secretary of State, the Obama administration has ignored their requests for access to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases that would allow them to quickly determine the citizenship status of those on the list and put the issue to rest. As a result, the state was forced to create its own plan to ensure only citizens were able to vote in important upcoming elections.
The plan they developed is pretty straight forward:
- First, those who have initially been identified by the state as potential non-citizen voters will be contacted by mail and given 30 days to respond.
- If they do not respond within the given time frame, their names will be publicized in the paper so they or people they know may be alerted to the issue.
- They will then have 30 more days to respond, at which point they will be removed from the voter rolls if they fail to do so.
After assembling an initial list of 2,600 registered voters whom the state could not confirm were citizens, they put their plan in motion and delivered the names to their respective counties so local election officials could carry out the plan.
Since the 2,600 letters were mailed out two weeks ago, 3 citizens have come forward to say they received the letter in error, which has caused the liberals in the media to proclaim the GOP is purging legal voters in Florida in an effort to disenfranchise minorities and fix the election!
But what was the purpose of the letters? It was to alert citizens that they were on a list they should not be on so they could take action to stay on the voter rolls. And why did the letters even need to be sent? Because the Obama administration would not grant the state's election officials access to federal databases that would ensure citizens were not mixed up in this mess in the first place. And now the administration is questioning the process that produced the names on the list, despite the state coming to them initially to prevent this very problem from the outset?
The facts are that the Obama administration knew that Florida was concerned about their ability to keep citizens off the list. That is why the state came to them and asked them for help. But they were ignored by an administration who now is curiously questioning their motives.
At the black leadership summit on Wednesday, Holder said, "I would argue that of all the freedoms we have today, none is more important or more sacred than the right to vote." So then why is it that the Obama administration ignored Florida's request to ensure that this "sacred" right was not deprived citizens?
After months of no comment, the DHS finally has an explanation as to why it will not allow Florida to use their databases to ensure citizens are not kept from a "sacred" freedom. Apparently there are a "number of legal and operational challenges" to granting the state access. Challenges that are apparently too daunting to overcome in the name of voting rights, but conveniently allow the administration to charge Republicans with violating them.
Florida has until June 6 to inform the administration of whether they will comply with the order to stop the purging process. Otherwise, the administration will take legal action.
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