On Tuesday, Governor Rick Scott played down a fund-raising letter he signed last week for the Republican Party of Florida, aimed at donors who approve his voting purge efforts.
The letter went out just as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was opening an investigation into an RPOF vendor, Strategic Allied Consulting, for possibly fraudulent voter registrations.
The Democratic Party is calling for a bipartisan investigation, but Scott jousted with reporters on the matter.
"And they're saying, again, that letter you signed for the RPOF is a sign that things are too partisan to leave to one party to investigate”, said Scott. “Well, it's not a party; it's the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. They're the ones doing the investigation."
Meanwhile, the legal battle over whether Florida can purge possibly ineligible voters from the rolls is headed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit said Friday they'll appeal a U.S. District judge's ruling that would let the state continue its controversial effort to purge non-citizens from the rolls right up until the November election.