Seems like the state's election officers, mostly republicans, are up in arms over this. Led by former Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, who was asked to resign when Scott first ordered him to do this.
Yes, the following is a source from FOX, so it may or may not be legit:
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/18441636/fla-says-more-than-53000-dead-on-voting-rollsFlorida's local election supervisors on Wednesday sounded skeptical, and even distrustful, of a push by the state to remove thousands of potential non-U.S. citizens from the voting rolls just months before the critical 2012 elections.
The supervisors, meeting at their annual summer conference, peppered state election officials with questions about the list of more than 2,600 people who have been identified as being in Florida legally but ineligible to vote. That list was sent to supervisors recently, but state officials have also said there may be as many as 182,000 registered voters who may not be citizens.
Aha! So my claim is right! There is no list of 182,000...it's only 2,600! Anyhow, as you can see, even Republicans are against this.
But election supervisors - including Democrats and Republicans - asked a range of questions about the level of proof that state election officials had regarding the citizenship status of voters which was culled by comparing voter registration lists to a state driver's license database. They said they wanted more information before they purge someone from the voting rolls.
"I'm feeling really uncomfortable about this," Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes told officials with the state's Division of Elections.
Brian Corley, the Pasco County elections supervisor, questioned the timing of the push, noting that election officials were first given a list of potential ineligible voters from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles roughly a year ago.
Corley pointed out how two voters on the department's list given to him wound up being born in Ohio and Massachusetts. One of the names wound up on the list of non-U.S. citizens because the driver's license number used to check citizenship had one number wrong on it.
"We want our voter rolls to be accurate, obviously no one wants someone to vote who isn't a citizen," Corley said. "But at the same time we are the ones fielding phone calls from voters saying `Why are you questioning my citizenship?"
Added Gertrude Walker, the St. Lucie County elections supervisor: "We don't have confidence in the validity of the information."
What's Scott's response to this? He's going after the supervisors, pointing out who's supporting him by
ranking them!Gov. Rick Scott has infuriated elections officials across Florida by rating their effectiveness based on requests for routine information from the presidential preference primary in January.
Election supervisors call the survey "flawed" and "inappropriate," because the information is not a true indicator of how well an election is run.
In a letter to Scott, they warned that the results could do more harm than good in a presidential election year when, as usual, all eyes will be on Florida.
"It also has the potential to undermine confidence in Florida's elections, which we work tirelessly to instill in the public," wrote David Stafford, the elections supervisor in Pensacola's Escambia County and president of the statewide association.
