election at rate of about 90%. george w. bush won the state of florida by 537 votes. that is what gave us as a country, president george w. bush. a 537 vote margin in a state that just implemented a sketchy purge of more than 170,000 people off its voter rolls. here we are in another year and florida republicans are purging voter rolls. rick scott has started a push this election cycle to remove potential noncitizens from florida s voter registration rolls. over the last several weeks the state sent local election supervisors a list of more than 2600 registered voters who are not u.s. citizens and not eligible to vote. they are responded wearily and pointed out inaccuracies.
voters they were told to scrub off had criminal records. under the leadership of george w. bush s brother, the governor, florida officials targeted 173,000 names for removal from the state s voter rolls ahead of the 2000 election. democrats argued at that time that the list affected african-american voters who were voting for al gore in that election at rate of about 90%. george w. bush won the state of florida by 537 votes. that is what gave us as a country, president george w. bush. a 537 vote margin in a state that just implemented a sketchy purge of more than 170,000 people off its voter rolls. here we are in another year and florida republicans are purging voter rolls. rick scott has started a push this election cycle to remove potential noncitizens from
internakola. he was born in brooklyn, he was awarded a bronze star for service as a medic at the battle of the bulge. and he is a registered democrat. the new nbc news maris poll in florida shows president obama at 45% and mitt romney at 40%, the new quinnipiac florida poll shows mitt romney at 47% and president obama at 41%. how important are the millions of votes cast in florida and how important are the votes that will be blocked by rick scott s sudden interest in birth certificates? in 2000, in the final official vote count, only 537 votes separated george w. bush and al gore. joining me now, congressman ted deutsch who represents florida s 9th district, u.s. citizen,
president obama holds a 34-point nationwide lead. that s who is being purged. from the state that gave us a 537 margin vote victory in the year 2000 and trying to revoke voting rights. what could possibly go wrong? joining us now is michael waltman. thanks very much for your time. nice to have you here. great to be with you. having studied voting rights cases all around the country and over time, what do you think is the motivation for what s going on in florida right now, and what do you think is the outcome? it s true for election fiasco buffs, the question is what s going to be the next florida? and what do you know, florida. this comes on top of many other problems with the way we run elections and things that have sought to kick people off the
under the leadership of george w. bush s brother, the governor, florida officials targeted 173,000 names for removal from the state s voter rolls ahead of the 2000 election. democrats argued at that time that the list affected african-american voters who were voting for al gore in that election at rate of about 90%. george w. bush won the state of florida by 537 votes. that is what gave us as a country, president george w. bush. a 537 vote margin in a state that just implemented a sketchy purge of more than 170,000 people off its voter rolls. here we are in another year and florida republicans are purging voter rolls. rick scott has started a push this election cycle to remove potential noncitizens from florida s voter registration rolls. over the last several weeks the