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Purge sparks three lawsuits in Florida

| June 26, 2012 - 4:02 pm

Tags: 112th Congress, ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Bob Kengle, citizenship, department of homeland security, Department of Justice, DHS, DOJ, Florida, Howard Simon, Ken Detzner, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, LCCRUL, National Voter Registration Act, NVRA, Policy Corner, public policy, Rick Scott, SAVE, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, Texas, Tom Perez, voter registration, voter suppression, voting rights

Since Florida Governor Rick Scott and Secretary of State Ken Detzner refused to comply with a Department of Justice warning to stop their sweeping effort to purge voters from the rolls, the DOJ has filed a suit against the state, contending the purge violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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