Rick Scott Is Back With a New Scheme To Purge the Vote In Florida By: Adalia WoodburyAug. 11th, 2013 more from Adalia Woodbury ********** ********** ********** ********** The most vulnerable are people who became naturalized citizens after applying for a driver’s license. Errors can happen as result of explainable discrepancies ranging from the spelling of someone’s name to using different formats for entering dates. Someone who was born in the U.S but has the same name and birthdate of a non-citizen or people who lost their right to vote as a result of a conviction are also vulnerable. Then there’s the possibility that someone can be struck erroneously because 2 distinctly different people with the same name were erroneously thought to be the same person. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, this sort of erroneous purging happens more often than one would think. The infamous Florida purge of 2000 — conservative estimates place the number of wrongfully purged voters close to 12,000 was generated in part by bad matching criteria. Of course, people put on the purge list in Florida are notified by letter and have 30 days to prove their citizenship. Sometimes that isn’t as simple as Republicans would like you to believe. Significant numbers of Americans don’t have the sort of documents that prove citizenship. Most people in this category are women, people who earn less than $25,000 a year, Native Americans and naturalized citizens. According to the Brennan Center, only 48% of voting age women who have access to their U.S birth certificate have their current name on the birth certificate and only 66% of women have access to acceptable ID of any sort that bears their current legal name. Naturalized Citizens face a couple of possible problems. They might have misplaced or lost their Naturalization certificate. They might have changed their legal name as a result of marriage or out of a desire to assimilate by adopting an Anglicized version of their name. Want to read more? Please visit: politicususa/2013/08/11/rick-scotts-purge-vote-encore.html
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:40:27 +0000