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His administration is suing the federal government in hopes of forcing the department of homeland security to help them out with a big election year 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 inaccuracies. the "miami herald" reported the list was produced with, quote, some outdated data and that it, quote, targeted hundreds of actual citizens who are lawful voters.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 justic...

Rick scott announced today that his administration is suing the federal government in hopes of forcing the department of homeland security to help them out with a big election year 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 inaccuracieinaccuracies. the "miami herald" reported the list was produced with, quote, some outdated data and that it, quote, targeted hundreds of actual citizens who are...

"as for the fact -- the justice department says the database wouldn't help anyway and the 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...

Take extreme pride and work very, very hard at giving fair, equitable, and transparent elections. whoever wins will win. whoever loses will lose. there is no partisanship in any way, shape, or form with the election supervisors in florida. and that is what is so very, very frustrating. >> you are a firewall in your job, is what it comes down to, ma'am. ann mcfall, republican election supervisor in volusia county. ma'am, thank you so much for being here tonight, ma'am. i feel a feeling we'll be talking again soon as this continues to unfold. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. all right. form...

The problem is that local election officials found the list to be riddled with inaccuracies. quote, the state-produced list of 2,700 suspected noncitizen voters was generated with some outdated data, targeting hundreds of actual citizens who are lawful voters. so far, no one has been purged who has not admitted that he or she is a noncitizen. that was from the "miami herald" yesterday. today the "orlando sentinel" reported on the statistical infrequence of voter fraud in the state, which, remember, is the whole reason why rick scott claims he needs to purge the voter rolls ahead of this year's...