Facing South Florida: Voter Purge
There is a battle between Florida's governor Rick Scott and the US Justice Department over Scott's efforts to purge the voter rolls.
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There is a battle between Florida's governor Rick Scott and the US Justice Department over Scott's efforts to purge the voter rolls.
After prompting a debate about political publicity and gifts, Gov. Rick Scott will be able to provide recorded greetings that travelers will hear when they ride shuttle buses at Tampa International Airport, a state ethics panel decided Friday.
Florida Governor Rick Scott continued Thursday to push back criticism that he was conducting a voter purge for political purposes.
Elected officials would do well to remember that it is the job of the voters to pick their representatives, it is not the job of elected officials to pick who gets to vote.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said Thursday he knows what it's like to be purged from voter rolls because it's happened to him in the past.
It wouldn't be a presidential election year without some sort of shenanigans going on in Florida. The latest case is squaring off the Department of Justice against the state of Florida and the state of the Florida against the Department of Homeland Security.
Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law will take center stage Tuesday as a task force set up by Gov. Rick Scott holds its first public hearing.
Florida will sue the Department of Homeland Security to gain access to a federal database in its efforts to purge ineligible voters from the rolls, according to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, the state's top election official.
Something has got to give. Even if they increased tuition by the maximum 15 percent allowed by law, the chancellor of the Florida's university system said they would still not be able to make up financially for the dramatic cuts in state funding.
A coalition of citizens and a Hispanic advocacy group, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, have filed a federal suit to stop Governor Rick Scott's purging of "non-citizens" from the voter rolls.
Florida Governor Rick Scott didn't win a majority of the popular vote when he was elected and his approval ratings have been among the worst in the country. A new poll found Scott's approval rating once again struggling and that wasn't even the worst news.
Florida's new law making it illegal under most circumstances for companies to do business with Cuba and Syria is facing a challenge in federal court filed by a construction company with a huge stake in South Florida and a small stake in Cuba.
Governor Rick Scott may be ready to fight the federal government over his pursuit of purging voter rolls, but he's also facing another front in the fight from all of the 67 county elections supervisors.
As Governor Rick Scott and the state government prepare to defy a federal request to stop the voter roll purge; the constant claim from Scott and the Republican legislature has been the purge is needed to prevent voter fraud.
The election year fight by Governor Rick Scott to purge voter rolls of "non-citizens" is in trouble of spiraling Florida into a similar situation the state faced in the disastrous presidential election in 2000.
Florida's voter purge may have met its match in the U.S. Department of Justice. After weeks of calls to stop the purge, the Justice Department ordered Florida to stop the voter roll purge undertaken on order of Florida Governor Rick Scott, but the fight may still continue.
Here we go again. Check your battery, water and canned food supplies. The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane season is officially underway.
A Florida federal judge has struck a blow in the election reform laws championed by Governor Rick Scott and the Republican-led state legislature.
Despite protests from voting rights groups, Democrats, and several Supervisors of Elections; Florida's voter roll purge isn't slowing down. That's left local elections departments with the tall task of trying to make sense of a list of "non-citizen" voters compiled by the state.
As the presidential campaign kicks into high gear over the summer, Florida is once again expected to be a key swing state that could decide who will occupy the White House. But troubling questions are coming up as the state seeks to purge voter rolls.
A 91-year-old decorated World War II veteran is just one of hundreds of South Florida voters shocked to learn that they've been identified as a non-U.S. Citizen and may be ineligible to vote.
Looking toward the 2014 election, the Republican Party is gearing up ad campaign in an effort to keep Rick Scott in office.
Florida's unemployment rate in April continued to mirror that of the rest of the country, dropping to 8.7 percent, according to numbers released Friday.
The came from Canada, Great Britain and Brazil. They came from France, Fiji and dozens of other countries. They played at our theme parks, sunned themselves on our beaches and spent tons of money.
Hurricane forecasters have improved their ability to predict where a storm will go since the time Hurricane Andrew made a catastrophic landfall in South Florida two decades ago, however, the ability to predict how bad, or intense a storm will be still eludes them.
