Meet Maureen Russo: An Eligible Florida Voter Governor Rick Scott Just Purged From Th

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Meet Maureen Russo: An Eligible Florida Voter Governor Rick Scott Just Purged From The Voting Rolls

By Judd Legum on May 25, 2012 at 1:55 pm

Maureen Russo was born in Akron, Ohio. For the last 40 years she’s operated a dog boarding and grooming business — Bobbi’s World Kennels — with her husband in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Maureen is 60 years old and has been a registered voter in the state for the last four decades. She regularly votes at the church around the corner from her home.

Two weeks ago she received a letter from the State of Florida informing her that that had recieved information that she was not born in this country and, therefore, was ineligible to vote.

<..> Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), who represents Ms. Russo, has called on the Governor Scott to “immediately suspend” the voting purge because of widespread inaccuracies and a lack of transparency.

<..> It is unclear what legitimate purpose Gov. Scott has to move forward with the voting purge in the face of multiple documented errors. Florida has no history of mass voter fraud. It does have a history, however, of mass voter disenfranchisement. By one estimate, 7000 Florida voters were wrongfully removed from the voter rolls for the 2000 presidential election — 13 times George W. Bush’s margin of victory in that state after the Supreme Court halted the post-election recount.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05...tt-purged/

This is madness. We need rigid federal voting laws that the states can't corrupt.

[SeattleGirl]

Agreed! National voting laws and not this state by state nonsense that can allow states to gerry-rig the rules to favor one (Republican) party!

[azmouse]

I wonder which party most of the purged belong to?
Let me guess... they're Democrats, right?

[Treestar]

I suppose she can contest it. But what brought it on. Why, after 40 years, would they think she is not a citizen? I could imagine a bureaucracy saying that because she didn't present an ID but they'd have to require that ID first, and that would apply to anyone else too.