At Tampa Bay Online (TBO), the U.S. Department of Justice is demanding that Hillsborough turn over The county received a subpoena Wednesday for documents dating to Jan. 1 The subpoena stems from a lawsuit filed June 12 in Tallahassee by the federal Hillsborough Elections Supervisor Earl Lennard said he would comply with the The subpoena landed on the same day the American Civil Liberties Union Here we go again. More politicization of the voting process. DOJ just won’t let the non-citizen voting issue go. Not surprising, DOJ and the ACLU are working together to get felons and non-citizens on the voting rolls.
voter-purge records, pulling the county into a growing legal fracas over Gov.
Rick Scott’s push to clean out the state’s voter registry.
relating to any efforts at identifying voters as potential noncitizens.
government against Florida and Secretary of State Ken Detzner over state efforts
to scrub voter rolls.
subpoena. Like supervisors across the state, Lennard halted efforts to purge
voters when the tools to cross-reference citizenship and voter registration — a
Department of Homeland Security database and motor vehicle records — proved
unreliable, he said.
claimed that more than 17,000 former felons whose civil rights have been
restored never received their notices of rights restoration. More than 13,000 of
them aren’t registered and may not know they’re eligible to vote, the ACLU
said.
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DOJ demands records from Hillsborough County, Fla. over removal of non-citizen voters
At Tampa Bay Online (TBO), the U.S. Department of Justice is demanding that Hillsborough turn over The county received a subpoena Wednesday for documents dating to Jan. 1 The subpoena stems from a lawsuit filed June 12 in Tallahassee by the federal Hillsborough Elections Supervisor Earl Lennard said he would comply with the The subpoena landed on the same day the American Civil Liberties Union Here we go again. More politicization of the voting process. DOJ just won’t let the non-citizen voting issue go. Not surprising, DOJ and the ACLU are working together to get felons and non-citizens on the voting rolls.
voter-purge records, pulling the county into a growing legal fracas over Gov.
Rick Scott’s push to clean out the state’s voter registry.
relating to any efforts at identifying voters as potential noncitizens.
government against Florida and Secretary of State Ken Detzner over state efforts
to scrub voter rolls.
subpoena. Like supervisors across the state, Lennard halted efforts to purge
voters when the tools to cross-reference citizenship and voter registration — a
Department of Homeland Security database and motor vehicle records — proved
unreliable, he said.
claimed that more than 17,000 former felons whose civil rights have been
restored never received their notices of rights restoration. More than 13,000 of
them aren’t registered and may not know they’re eligible to vote, the ACLU
said.
Give them the records they subpoenaed with the pages black from being redacted just like the ones Holder submitted when he was subpoenaed.