Op-Ed:

Yeeessss.........Florida Governor Rick Scott takes on the DOJ

By: Diane Sori

I love Florida...and one of the reasons why is that we have a governor who doesn’t take crap from the likes of Eric Holder or Barack Hussein Obama. 

Governor Rick Scott has refused to abide by the Department of Justice’s demand to stop purging non-citizens from our Florida voter rolls.  Talk about courage and fortitude to do the right thing...bravo Governor Scott. 

In an election-year standoff with the Department of Justice, Governor Scott claims, and rightly so, that the DOJ doesn’t understand two federal voting laws that are the crux of the dispute.  He also claims, and again rightly so, that the DOJ is protecting ILLEGAL voters while throwing the LEGAL ones aside.

But the Department of Justice claims the process of Florida’s non-citizen purge program is the problem.

Duh...it should be obvious to even the clueless that if the process is indeed the problem, fix the process but until then the process stands as is.

On Monday Governor Scott officially announced that Florida is going forward with suing the Obama administration over its refusal to share ‘SAVE’ a Homeland Security database Florida needs to purge its voting rolls of non-citizens who should not have registered to vote.

"We want to have fair, honest elections in our state, and so we've been put in the position that we have to sue to get it," Governor Scott said just before the suit was filed.

Once the suit filing was announced, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner stated, “We can’t let the federal government delay our efforts to uphold the integrity of Florida elections any longer.”  “We’ve filed a lawsuit to ensure the law is carried out and we are able to meet our obligation to keep the voter rolls accurate and current.”

And why would anyone want to deny the integrity of any states voter’s roll...gee, does that answer have to hit you upside the head!  

Why...because we currently live in Obamaland where the dead vote, ILLEGALS vote, people vote more than once, voters are intimidated at the polls, ballots are ‘conveniently’ lost, you name it.  Our once sacred right to a fair and just election has been so corrupted by this administration that it took these 3-1/2 years for someone to finally get the courage to come forward, challenge, and say, ‘NO MORE'!

And that man of courage is our Florida Governor Rick Scott.  Hey Boehner...you need to take a lesson in courage from this man.

In response to Florida’s suit, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, a Holder clone and Obama shill, tried to counter Detzner’s comments by saying Florida’s program was too "faulty," and comes too close to election time to not endanger the voting rights of thousands of lawful U.S. citizens. 

Too close to the election, no, I don’t think so.

For over nine months Florida has tried to gain access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.  SAVE comes under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, and is needed to verify eligible voters so voter rolls can be purged of ineligible voters.

But Perez claimed that SAVE wasn’t designed for the non-citizen inquiries that the Florida purge is based upon.

To that Detzner replied, “By denying Florida access to the SAVE database, DHS appears to have violated federal law, which provides that states may use the SAVE database for any legal purpose such as… voter registration,” and that “DHS shall respond to an inquiry by a State… government agency… seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information.”

Both Governor Scott and Secretary of State Detzner claim that NO federal law prohibits Florida from verifying the eligibility of voters or from removing non-citizens from its voter rolls with or without the help of SAVE.  They also say that in no way does Florida violate the Voting Rights Act or the National Voter Registration Act (NRVA) as the DOJ is claiming (the National Voter Registration Act bans voter purges within 90 days of a federal election), because the national election is still over 5 months away.

To put it simply, what the Department of Justice must answer in Florida’s suit is basically this...is it common practice for the DOJ to allow the DHS to violate federal law by delaying for months requests by states for access to the SAVE database so that the DOJ in turn can claim that the state is in violation because of the time period allowed in another federal law.

In Obamaland the answer is pretty obvious...it is.

And just like a whiny little child stamping its feet, the DOJ announced on Tuesday that it was counter suing Florida for using “inaccurate and unreliable” voter verification procedures.

Let the games begin.