The latest example of the lack of will of prosecutors and incompetency of election officials in South Florida.  Where is Governor Scott to “fix this”?    

The Palm Beach Post reports that: Eight Palm Beach County felons who voted illegally in the 2012 primary
election will not be charged because authorities couldn’t prove they
were aware they didn’t have the right to vote. Meanwhile, two of the
felons remain on the Palm Beach County voter rolls.

The standard of “proving” criminal intent seems to be a bit different in Palm Beach than in the rest of the country.  The story reveals that prosecutors have the registration applications and the absentee ballot paperwork to prove the felons voted illegally.  Note the lack of proof that the “investigators” point to in determining that there was a lack of evidence.  The lack of a confession is not a lack of evidence.

…Romagnoli spoke with seven of the eight men, each of whom said they
hadn’t been told by the supervisor of elections that they couldn’t vote
and hadn’t been turned away at the polls.

Why does anyone believe a felon who again committed another felony by voting is simply going to confess to investigators and admit their guilt to multiple felonies.  The felons deny and investigators simply buy the explanation?  When has that ever been the end of the story.  Since when is there an affirmative duty of a local official to inform citizens not to break the law.  Imagine: “The Sheriff didn’t tell me I couldn’t not grow marijuana in my basement so it must be OK.”

Then there is the response of the local election official pointing fingers at someone else:

… Though Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said she thinks
the system for verifying voter eligibility is “slow and onerous,” she
has few alternatives. By law she is allowed to act on information from
other sources to remove felons from the voter rolls, but doesn’t do so.

She admits she is not taking all steps available, instead relying on “slow and onerous” information.  If the system is “slow and onerous” in processing felons that is something Palm Beach County, Governor Scott and the Florida Legislature should fix.