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The ballot in miami-dade this year is ten pages, ten giant pages filled with tiny type. it's happening all over the state. the election supervisor in monroe county calls the ballot there, a monster. in pinellas county, the election supervisor says this is the longest ballot i can remember. the voter who sees this the first time may need smelling salts. the huge ballots take awhile to read and fill out. then you have to stand there and scan it in. page after page. and even before this year's monster ballots, florida knows they have a problem with long lines to vote. with the monster ballots set...

Browning who was an election supervisor for 26 years recently told the miami herald quote, i didn't feel comfortable rolling this initiative out. something was telling me this wasn't going to fly. we didn't have our is dotted and ts crossed when i was there. i would not have sent this to the list of counties. and to the next florida secretary of state ken detzner. a funny thing is happening on the way to the purge we found out. joining me now judith brown dianis and susan booker. she's the supervisor of elections for palm beach county, florida. thanks for being here. >> thanks. >> miss booker,...

Election supervisor who reviewed a state-provided list of over 1,000 potentially ineligible voters determined the list had a significant error rate and advised further use of the list would potentially disenfranchise eligible voters based on an inaccurate list. so it's not clear at this point whether and how the rick scott administration might continue to carry out their election year voter purge, but it is clear they're determined to try to carry it out, no matter what. and in an election year in the very state that decided the election 12 years ago on a razor thin, error-ridden margin, you m...

Purge of florida voters. mr. scott has said the purpose of the purge is to remove noncitizens from florida voter rolls. when scott's administration sent a purge list to county election supervisors, those local officials found it to be riddled with inaccurinaccuracies. the "miami herald" reported the list was produced with, quote, some outdated data and that it, quote, targeted hundreds of actual citizens who are lawful voters. late last month, the justice department warned the state to stop the purge. saying it would appear to violate both the voting rights act and the national voter registrat...

Sloppy error prone surge is sloppy and error prone because it's the way the administration carried out. quote, your claim the department of justice and department of homeland security worked in concert to dae nigh florida access to the save program database is simply wrong. the significant problems you're encountering in administering this new program are of your own creation. the program has critical imperfections which lead to errors that harm and confuse eligible voters. especially the program is based on information collected sometimes years ago from driver's license applications. the info...