Governor Rick Scott has declared victory in the Voter Purge Debate. Case Closed.
Because he has allegedly found:
[...] we found 100 people that are not entitled to vote. They’re non US citizens. And we know 50 of them voted.”
Wow. Nice round numbers. 50 out of the 100.
That's a 50% problem right?
Rick is making it simple for the mathematically -- and civicly challenged.
These "unentitled" people (was it an address change? a name change?) are tilting Florida into the clutches of the ACORN brigade.
And Rick Scott is here to Stop it! Papers please. Photos too. Post haste. You got 30 days.
Just a second there Ranger Rick -- what about those "legally entitled" people who will end up NOT Voting because of your dragnet-like and possibly illegal challenge?
What about them -- do their Votes matter?
Law and Order Rick has found 100 "not entitled voters" in his state ...
Out of how many challenged?
Well in Miami-Dade county alone:
According to the records, 359 of the 1,638 alleged “non-citizen” voters on the Miami-Dade list were able to provide proof of citizenship. The county identified another 26 as U.S. citizens. Most of the remaining 1,200 people targeted by the purge in that area had not yet responded to the letter sent by the Supervisor of Elections.
That's roughly 400 out of 1600 (or about 25%) of
legally entitled voters -- that Rick Scott
would just rather not vote.
He may get his wish wish with the other 1200 (or 75%) since they haven't rushed into the county clerk to prove the obvious (Where is that county clerk office anyways? Wait, the Boss says no way -- Get back to work!)
[...]
Late last year, Scott ordered his Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to “to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the voter rolls.” Browning could not access to reliable citizenship data. So election officials attempted to identify non-U.S. citizens by comparing data from the state motor vehicle administration with the voting file. That process produced a massive list of 182,000 names, which Browning considered unreliable and refused to release. Browning resigned in February and Scott pressed forward with the purge.
[...]
So extrapolation from the Miami-Dade "Scott Disenfranchisement" rate of 75% --
Apply that "sample rate" to their very questionable state target list of 182,000 drivers (filled with very questionable names no doubt):
And that's approximately 136,500 people who will probably not Vote -- all so that Rick Scott could make a Faux-News splash, with his voter-crack-down announcement:
"50 out of 100" Cheating Voters found! (Remember Rick has that same 182 K list -- he ordered it.)
That's some success rate Rick:
50 vs 136,500 (Unentitled vs likely Disenfranchised)
That's a 2730-fold side-effect civic-casualty rate. Whoops!
Bet you don't hear the Photo-Voter crowd touting that anti-American number, in the coming days; well they don't much like those groups on the target list anyways, so why would they?
What's in it for them if they do? Math is icky. Better to keep it real simple with nice round numbers.