Rick Scott: Voter Purge Turned Up 'Over 50' Non-Citizen Voters -- 'The Debate's Over'
By Nick Wing
06/12/2012
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Tuesday sought to explain his recent decision to sue the federal government over a controversial voter purge effort meant to strike supposed non-citizens from the rolls.
"The debate's over," Scott told CNN. "We know we have almost 100 individuals that have registered to vote that are non-U.S. citizens. Over 50 of them have voted in our elections."
Earlier counts by Florida officials suggested that they'd found 87 non-citizens on the voter rolls, 47 of whom had voted. That was out of a list of 2,700 potential names pared down from an original catalogue of around 182,000. The final list was also judged to have contained 500 names of voters who were legitimate U.S. citizens.
According to a Miami-Herald analysis, more than 60 percent of the voters on the list are black or Latino...
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