Elections officials in Florida are cleaning up the voting rolls, and – as one would expect – liberal Democrats are shouting “suppression.”
What actually is happening is explained by the Secretary of State’s office:
“Supervisors of Elections perform list maintenance after election cycle years to ensure their voter rolls are accurate and up to date. Pursuant to section 98.065 F.S., they’re required to send notices to voters who have not voted in the past 2 election cycles [among other reasons].”
In other words, state law requires supervisors to keep the rolls clean by removing people who have not voted in two years.
Among the reasons the rolls get messy are that voters move from the area or die.
Voter rolls apparently have more dead Democrats than Republicans.
In Duval County, the breakdown by party of those most recently removed is:
- Democrat – 13,155
- Republican – 7,479
- NPA – 9,972
- Other — 827
- Total – 31,433
Statewide, the proportions are about the same.
Why is it that Democrats think removing the names of dead voters from the rolls is suppressing votes?
That would only be true if they were using the names of dead people to cast fake votes. Democrats never would do that – would they?
The law requires supervisors to send notices to the people who are removed, and they can be reinstated. It is not possible to count how many are reinstated without checking each voter individually, Supervisor Jerry Holland said.
But it is obviously good stewardship to keep live people on the rolls.
