i have a job to do to defend the right of legitimate voters. citizens of our state. we ve been asking for the department of homeland security s database save for months and they haven t given it to us. 12 years ago, the presidential election, a 537 vote margin in physical. voters misunderstood their ballots. thousands more were turned away from the polls in error. florida failed one of the foundational rights we have as citizens. the right to vote. so after that embarrassment, you think they d be pretty careful today. right? yeah. you d think that. florida s republican governor rick scott announced today that his administration is suing the federal government in hopes of forcing the department of homeland security to help them out with a big election year
we re noncitizens. they found over 100 of these people who had voted. then they went and looked at some of the other lists and found in other counties they were noncitizens. now the state of florida submitted a request to the department of homeland security saying please give us the citizenship information on these people. in fact there is a federal law requiring the federal government to send florida this. it usc 8.1373. but the federal government refused to send this information. that s why we have this current fight. rick: with all due respect to the governor who we heard from at the top here says this is not about politics, how much of it is about actual widespread problem with the voter rolls and how much is about politics? we can t defy ney politics plays a role in all this so soon before a presidential election. of course it is plrtly political. remember this is florida. in 2000 the presidential race for entire country was settled by 537 votes. that means any problem with the
but they haven t experienced extra strength bayer advanced aspirin. in fact, in a recent survey, 92% of people who tried it said they would buy it again. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer. i have a job to do to defend the right of legitimate voters. citizens of our state. we ve been asking for the department of homeland security s database save for months and they haven t given it to us. 12 years ago, the presidential election, a 537 vote margin in physical. . voters misunderstood their ballots. thousands more were turned away from the polls in error. florida failed one of the foundational rights we have as citizens. the right to vote. so after that embarrassment, you think they d be pretty careful today. right? yeah. you d think that. florida s republican governor
florida did it before in 2004 where they used lists of people who were allegedly convicted of felonies. they ended up disenfranchising sncht ] thousands of legitimate voter, mostly african-american, that time. if you look at the margin of victory between bush and gore in 2000, it was 537 votes. when you can slice off a significant portion of the other side s electorate, you can rig an election, you can win an election. but you re winning it unfairly. and it s antithetical to our basic we re seeing it happen all across the country. the state of florida pursued this voter purge. these counties are legally required to give voters 90 days to prove their citizenship before they can remove them from the rolls. are florida officials violating that law? they re violating a law that says you can t do purges of voter rolls within 90 days of an
happening here, and florida likes to be the innovators of voter suppression, and they have take page out of the republican voter playbook, and it is not just what has passed in nine states over the past two years, but also the purges. that is how you win the elections and the reason that people should care is because in 2000, it is 537 votes that the e election came to and here is 180,000 potential voters who could be purged and most ly latino, but it impacts the elderly and impacts college students, so, you know, this is a broad play that they are going for, and you know, we are going to fight it, and the d.o.j. is stepping in, and it is great that we are, you know, really anteing up, and the governor has decided to be recalcitrant. and i read an article that says he is standing in the schoolhouse door, and this idea of massive resistance, and in a purple state with 29 electoral