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87% Of Rick Scott’s Florida Voter Purge Targets Are People of Color
The fact that 87% of the targets of Rick Scott’s Florida voter purge are people of color demonstrates that when Republicans say voter fraud they really mean blacks and Hispanics voting.
According to ColorofChange, “Florida Governor Rick Scott is trying to purge state voter rolls just before a key election. Scott's purge will give 180,000 Floridians — 87% of whom are people of color — 30 days to prove their citizenship. Any person who does not provide proof will be dropped from the rolls and deemed ineligible to vote.”
It might be too much to ask Republicans to explain why their voter suppression efforts target people who aren’t white, because they seem to be having a hard enough time proving that voter fraud actually exists.
Here is a fun little experiment. The next time you hear a Republican using the words voter fraud, substitute the phrase African American and Hispanic people voting. For example when a Republican claims that the biggest problem their state faces is voter fraud, what they really saying is that, “The biggest problem Republicans in my state are facing is that too many African-Americans and Hispanics are voting.” When Republicans refer to the “epidemic of voter fraud,” they are really talking about the, “epidemic of African Americans and Hispanics voting.”
After alienating women, African-Americans, and Hispanics, the only way Republicans that can win elections is by shrinking the size of the electorate by disqualifying as many Democratic leaning voters as possible. If voter fraud was a real problem in Florida, why haven’t there been more prosecutions for this crime? According to the Orlando Sentinel, “178 cases of alleged voter fraud have been referred to the department since 2000. FDLE's spreadsheet showed 11 arrests, but that apparently didn't include a 2009 bust of ACORN registration volunteers in Miami-Dade that yielded seven convictions and sentences ranging from probation to 72 days in jail.”
After the 2000 presidential election, Florida reformed their process, and there have been no prosecutions for absentee ballot voter fraud. Even though whites make up 68% of electorate in Dade County, they were only 9% of the target names on Gov. Scott’s list. In Dade, 64% of those targeted were Hispanic, and 14% were African-American.
Something tells me that if these African Americans and Hispanics were strong supporters of the Republican Party, no such purge would be taking place. Beyond the political backfire of helping Obama, the attempted Florida voter purge demonstrates how little Republicans value the concept of one person, one vote.
The most likely outcome of an Obama reelection is that Republicans will work even harder to suppress the Democratic vote in future elections.
Voter fraud isn’t just a myth. It’s Republican code. Remember, when you hear a Republican talk about voter fraud what they really are trying to eliminate is the “problem” of Democrats, African Americans, and Hispanics voting.
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18 Responses to 87% Of Rick Scott’s Florida Voter Purge Targets Are People of Color
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Reynardine
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Let us consider also the problem of women voting. Needless to say, election-day violence, plus stochastic violence against women leading up to that time, would be helpful to them, but it’s crude. What they have come up with is, “update your signature”. Your signature, they’ll tell you, may change, and if it doesn’t match the one on file, your ballot will be thrown out. But to “update” it, you have to submit a whole new registration form, and if you do that, they may cancel your old registration and not issue a new one, and you won’t be the wiser till you’re turned away at the polls. Then it’ll be too late.
If you have real reason to think your signature’s changed, such as a stroke or a hand injury, go to the office of the Supervisor of Elections *in person* and make certain the process is completed. Otherwise, an earlier thread gave an address at myflorida.com where you can check your status. If that is active, *don’t update your signature!*
buckeyewill
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
I not surprised Gov. Skinhead is going after minorities.
ripuree
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Might be a good time for black people to start their own Political Party.
labman57
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Scott's criteria for determining the validity of a vote registration form is actually quite scientific — he simply selects for purging any voter whose last name ends in "ez".
Reynardine
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
And anyone whose last name is Washington or Jefferson, and anyone whose first name is Lakisha or Tyrone.
Bill
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Wow, this is horrible journalism. If you stopped to think for a little bit you would figure out that most illegal immigrants are “of color”.
How many white or Asian people are coming over from Cuba or Mexico?
I don’t understand why it there is a problem with states making sure the law is being followed?
Reynardine
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 6:35 am
Bill, quite a few white people come from Cuba, and quite a few more from Ireland, while the ancestors of all those Washingtons and Jeffersons, like those of quite a number of those with-ez surnames, have been here longer than yours.
The title for second-oldest European city in the Americas, by the way, is shared by St. Augustine, Florida, and Cartagena, Colombia, and the oldest is Santa Marta, Colombia. Ponce de Leon was governor of Puerto Rico, whose natives are all “natural-born” US citizens, subject to the American draft where they are and both obligated to pay taxes and entitled to vote as soon as they set foot on the mainland. A purge of Spanish surnames will invariably wrongly purge many of these citizens.
Bill
Jun. 9th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
How about they have voters in all states prove citizenship?
That way there will be equality in the process and any illegals will be removed from the process.
Would that work?
Reynardine
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 6:37 am
We have already proven our citizenship when we registered, you dumb fuck.
TheSilentOrator
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 10:07 am
Clearly not if there's still voter fraud.
Bill
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 11:44 am
Nice language. It probably suits you. Stay classy.
Reynardine
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Sweets to the sweet. Have a crank.
Bill
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 11:49 am
If you have your registration then you should have not problem proving it.
Bill
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 11:41 am
There are people here illegally in Florida and they are most from Cuba and Mexico. As far as the 16th century, I believe that is a bit too far back for this conversation, thanks for the history lesson though. I live in Florida and I wouldn't mind if they asked me for proof of citizenship. So what is the problem? The problem is that Scott is a republican and any initiative by a republican is an evil plot to silence the oppostition. I know immigrants who came to the US legally and they don't have a problem with Scott's initative either.
So get to the point. You don't like Scott, that's fine. Either way there is nothing wrong with making sure people who are voting are legal to do so. The voters who are legal have earned thier right to do so when paying taxes.
Bill
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 11:50 am
*their*
Reynardine
Jun. 10th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Empirical evidence suggests any policy instituted by the current lot of Republicans is an evil plot, but especially by one who already has shown strong indications he’s a crook.