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The 老澳门开奖结果 and the Lawyers鈥� Committee for Civil Rights in federal district court in Florida challenging the state鈥檚 latest attack on voting rights: purging voters from voter registration rolls.

In May of this year, claiming that those voters on the list were not U.S. citizens. The list is fraught with inaccuracies and false positives. In Florida鈥檚 most populous county, Miami-Dade, where about 1,600 of the 2,700 鈥漣neligible鈥� voters are registered, nearly 500 of the targeted voters have already proven to be lawfully registered U.S. citizens. That鈥檚 more than a 30 percent error rate.

When I first read that Secretary Detzer had generated lists containing over 180,000 names of potentially ineligible voters, and had circulated lists containing nearly 2,700 of those names to county supervisors of elections for removal from the voter rolls, I could have sworn I was just having a bad dream. We鈥檝e been through this before.

In 2000, Florida鈥檚 then-, claiming that the voters were ex-felons and ineligible to vote. Merely months later, Florida became the swing state that . The months following the election proved that the 鈥渟crub鈥� list that was distributed by the Secretary of State was riddled with errors and had disfranchised . These eligible voters were unable to vote in the 2000 presidential election because the state insisted on a poorly planned and ill-advised pre-election purge of voting rolls.

Skip to 2012, and Florida is at it again. Secretary Detzer鈥檚 list again disproportionately impacts racial and language minorities. In fact, according to analysis, 61 percent of those on the purge list are Hispanic, while only 14 percent of registered Florida voters are Hispanic. By contrast, .

Unwilling to see the error of its ways, and unable to learn from its past mistakes, Florida has bucked the Department of Justice鈥檚 (DOJ) warning regarding the legality of this purge. The DOJ notified the state last week, quite accurately, that the new purge procedures have not been precleared as required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

Every vote matters and every vote counts; that鈥檚 what a democracy is all about. Recent history has shown that elections are won by the narrowest of margins. And with November only a few months away, we can鈥檛 afford to push people out of the electorate and deprive them of their most fundamental right.

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