Saying the Department of Justice
is protecting illegal noncitizen voters more than lawful ones, Gov.
Rick Scott’s administration Wednesday bluntly refused a federal demand
that it stop hunting and purging noncitizens from Florida’s voter rolls.

In
a sharply worded four-page letter, Scott’s administration also argued
that the Justice Department doesn’t understand two federal voting laws
at the heart of the dispute and accused another agency, the Department
of Homeland Security, of breaking yet another federal law for refusing
the state access to a federal citizenship database.

“This
hardly seems like an approach earnestly designed to protect the
integrity of elections and to ensure that eligible voters have their
votes counted,” said the letter, written by Scott’s hand-picked
secretary of state, Ken Detzner, a fellow Republican.

….”Not a single eligible voter as far, as I know, has been removed from
the voter rolls,” Republican Gov. Rick Scott said in a Wednesday
interview with WNDB radio in Daytona Beach, according to a News Service
of Florida transcript. Not one. And we’re working to keep it that way.” “Their
vote should not be diluted by people who don’t have the right to vote,”
Scott said. “We need to be reviewing our voter rolls and making sure
only those individuals who have the right to vote … are voting.”

The full story can be found here at the Tampa Bay Times.  Worth the full read.