deadline to prove they are eligible to vote. bill nicola, he s war hero, he s a veteran. he s one example. he s a 91-year-old decorated veteran of world war ii who received a letter telling him, you re not a u.s. citizen. therefore you re ineligible to vote. to correct this mistake, you know what he s got to do? he must now request a hearing of with the supervisor of elections to prove he s a united states citizens. i was amazed when i got the letter. i ve been voting since i was 18 years old i ve never had any trouble. you have to be thinking what s going on here. he was joined by two congressmen calming on governor scott to suspend the voter purge. he s is congressman hastings. who made the decision to put these names on a list? why did you make that decision? when did you make that decision? and if you made that decision recently when mr. intercola received the letter, why didn t you do it a long time before this election? the total is 180,000 voters have been iden
tonight. thanks for watching. the one thing about the republicans, that s masters at doing stuff when nobody else is watching. you need to watch this story. on the heel offense a national holiday honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, here comes are radical governor who is spearheading a version of democracy. governor rick scott s voter purge is tossing eligible voters under the rolls who are under a deadline to prove they are eligible to vote. bill nicola, he s war hero, he s a veteran. he s one example. he s a 91-year-old decorated veteran of world war ii who received a letter telling him, you re not a u.s. citizen. therefore you re ineligible to vote. to correct this mistake, you know what he s got to do? he must now request a hearing of with the supervisor of elections to prove he s a united states citizens. i was amazed when i got the letter. i ve been voting since i was 18 years old i ve never had any trouble. you have to be thinking what s
Right to vote and it is being assaulted right here. nelson said this to the league of united latin american citizens in tampa. a coalition of civil rights have asked florida secretary of state ken denster to stop the purge or risk a lawsuit. they saw federal law prohibits voters being removed from the roll less than 90 days before the election. florida holds a primary election on august 14th. the next presidential election could be stolen right before our eyes if this flawed voter purge is not halted. maureen russo has thrown out the rolls. she is a ft. lauderdale residents who has legally voted in florida for 40 years. two weeks ago the state of florida said they had information indicating she was not born in this country. she immediately asked a hearing but has not yet received a response.
Ohio, in illinois, in maine, in florida. in the iconic swing state of florida, those aren t the only new obstacles to voting there this year. as we have been reporting on the show, florida s republican governor rick scott has started a push to purge thousands of voters off florida s voter registration rolls, in time for the election. as in all of these cases, the stated goal of this mass effort to take away thousands of floridian s voting rights is supposedly the prevention of voter fraud. in recent weeks, the state of florida has sent local elections officials a list of more than 2,600 registered voter who is the state says are not u.s. citizens and therefore are not eligible to vote and they have to have their names taken off the rolls. election supervisors, in turn, have been looking at those lists and finding tons of inaccuracies. like, for example, maureen russo, u.s. citizen, born in akron, ohio. the state of florida wants her purged off the voting list. bill anturnacorolla, born