Voter Purge

Earlier this month the Florida Gulf Coast University Library Archives and Special Collections’ hosted a virtual panel discussion in conjunction with their current digital exhibition titled, “Fight for the Ballot: Voting Rights in the 20th Century.”The panel discussion called, “The Right to Vote – Under Attack Again!” was moderated by WGCU’s John Davis and included legal and voting rights experts C. Ronald Ellington, Howard Simon and Jennifer Scuteri all discussing voter suppression, gerrymandering and the impact of elections.With just over a week until the Nov. 3 General Election, we present that panel discussion.

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On April 1, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled Florida’s 2012 voter purge effort violated the National Voter Registration Act. The…

A federal court ruled Tuesday that Gov. Rick Scott’s effort to remove non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls several weeks shy of the 2012 presidential…

State officials have suspended the state’s controversial non-citizen voter purge.In a memo to local election officials, Florida’s Secretary of State Ken…

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Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner says his office will soon begin forwarding the names of suspected non-citizens on the voter rolls to local…

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Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elecitons Craig Latimer is joining other local election officials who plan to ignore a new state directive that only…