A free for all last night on nationwide talk radio over the Voting Section Chief (Levin tells you who he is, over and over) and DOJ attorney Elise Shore.   Audio here starts at minute 51.  Expect more, much more.  Levin says he is going to keep pounding on this issue over the coming weeks.  “Did you ever think you’d live in a time when this would happen.  Can you believe Democrats really support this, I mean real Democrats, not Democrat politicians.”

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.

More to follow as details come in.

From the Miami Herald: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office won’t rule out suing the Department of Homeland Security for refusing to share its citizenship database with Florida’s elections division in its hunt for noncitizen voters.

“It’s disappointing that the Obama Administration has been unwilling
to help the Department of State ensure that we have accurate voter
rolls,” Bondi’s office told The Miami Herald in response to an inquiry.
“We still hope that the Department of State will be able to obtain the
Obama Administration’s cooperation without resorting to litigation, but
we’re monitoring the situation and believe Florida needs to keep all of
its options open.”

…Federal law (8 USC; 1373 to be exact),
says the “Immigration and Naturalization Service shall respond to an
inquiry by a Federal, State, or local government agency, seeking to
verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any
individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose
authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status
information.”

Thomas Sowell is really paying attention to DOJ.  Two weeks in a row his syndicated column touches on the Voting Section.

“Obama’s Department of Justice has been spreading the hysteria that states requiring photo identification for voting are trying to keep minorities from voting, and using the prevention of voter fraud as a pretext.”

More at link.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that three veteran Florida Supreme Court justices could possibly face a
criminal investigation and legal action over the handling of their
campaigns to remain on the bench.Gov. Rick Scott,
a Republican who has been critical of some of the court’s past rulings,
on Tuesday asked a state law-enforcement agency to decide whether to
investigate the justices over their use of state employees to help
finish election-related paperwork

…”Meanwhile, a conservative legal group is raising questions about
whether the justices may be violating ethics rules because they are
raising money and urging voters to keep them on the bench.  “No man
is above the law, particularly those charged with enforcing the law,”
said Shannon Gosseling, executive director of the Southeastern Legal
Foundation”

Restore Justice 2012- Stop Judicial Activism is the organization educating voters on the judicial activism of the three Florida Justices.

With allegations of political enforcement of the law and multiple controversies, no surprises with this Rasmussen poll finding:

On the ground report on Democrat despair at National Review.

“But what was surreal was watching the unregistered people sit down at the plastic folding table and pull out evey kind of identification you can imagine — crumpled cable bills, old unemployment checks, etc.”

I suppose now the priorities are laid bare.  National Review: 

“Time and again, the Holder Justice Department has exhibited politically driven law enforcement. But its latest instance of lawlessness is absolutely brazen. Last week, the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section sent a letter to the Florida secretary of state, Ken Detzner, ordering him to stop removing voters who are not citizens from Florida’s voter-registration rolls. . . .

But none of this seems to matter to Herren, who asserted, falsely, that Florida is violating Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act because it didn’t get its review procedure “preapproved” by the Justice Department or a federal court.  . . .

Herren also makes the spurious claim that removing noncitizens violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), popularly known as Motor Voter, because the removal is occurring within 90 days of the August 14 Florida primary. Section 8 of Motor Voter provides that a state has to complete “any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters” not later than 90 days prior to the election. . . .

The idea that Florida is violating one section of the NVRA when it removes noncitizens, who committed a felony when they violated another section of the NVRA by illegally registering, is ridiculous. The unlawful registration was void ab initio — invalid from the very beginning. . . .

If there were any doubt remaining, the left-wing ideology driving the decision about Florida is revealed in the last sentence of the Herren letter, which tells the Florida secretary of state to contact the Voting Section lawyer assigned to the case, Elise Shore.”

link  Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, spoke with Fox News Channel’s
Greta Van Susteren on Monday about maintaining integrity in the voting
process when people go to cast their votes today during Wisconsin’s
gubernatorial recall.

“It’s real stuff. It’s felons voting. It’s
people voting twice. Things along those lines. Wisconsin’s voting laws
are so liberal…it’s very easy to potentially commit fraud and get away
with it if you want to,” said AG Van Hollen when asked how serious the
voter fraud issue was in Wisconsin.