Color me fucking shocked. Shocked.
Florida is fucking with voter eligibility during a presidential election year.
They've been doing this awhile under the guise of stopping felons and non-citizens from voting.
And of course, they are fucking this shit up so it gets posted.
NPR looks at the voter purge going on in Florida: “Bill Internitonic, a 91-yar-old World War II veteran, was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and now lives in Florida's Broward County. He recently received a letter from county elections officials asking him to show proof he was a U.S. citizen or be removed from the voting rolls. Internitonic says he was ‘flabbergasted.’ …
“Internitonic's was one of more than 180,000 names Florida's secretary of state identified from motor vehicle records as possible noncitizens. Several weeks ago, the secretary's office sent county elections supervisors a first batch of some 2,600 names. County officials, who are also preparing for the state's August primary, started sending out letters to suspected noncitizens, saying they had 30 days to prove their citizenship or be removed from the voting rolls.”
More: “Democrats and voting-rights groups say the majority of those targeted by the purge are Hispanics and other minority voters. Last week, a coalition of voting-rights groups sent a letter to Detzner asking him to immediately call a halt to the voter purge because they say it's both unfair and illegal. … The secretary of state's office says it reads the law differently and plans to continue its efforts to remove ineligible voters from the rolls.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/31/11989071-2012-floridas-voter-purge?liteIs honestly anyone surprised by this? Of course there will always be these kinds of mistakes, but remember this state should be under extra scrutiny but it's past fuckups ESPECIALLY in this regard.
This is all without mention that the idea that felons shouldn't be allowed to vote is questionable and that people are only given 30 days before their right to vote is revoked.
Let me ask you, the people, something. Who should have the power to say you can not vote for any reason? Shouldn't this sort of power be welded by like, oh gee I don't know, maybe a Judge with the backing of a court system?
Reminder: This government belongs to me and you. Belongs. It's ours. We need to get more possessive of ti in general.
Hey Florida. Wake the fuck up you retards and stop voting in fucking retards you fucking retards.