Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott is once again carrying out blatant voter suppression. As reported by ThinkProgress:
Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has ordered the state to purge all “non-citizens” from the voting rolls prior to November’s election. But that list compiled by the Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in Miami-Dade County alone, hundreds of U.S. citizens are being told they are ineligible to vote,
In Miami-Dade County alone, 1638 people were labeled as non-citizens and were sent letters telling them they could not vote. Of those 1638 people, 385 have proven themselves to be citizens. The rest have simply not responded to the letter.
Of course, the people who have been purged from the voting rolls are disproportionately Democrats and minorities.
This is naked voter suppression, and it must be stopped. 2000 shall hopefully never happen again.