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Rick Scott On Purge: We Found 50 Non-citizen Voters So 'Debate Is Over'

Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday declared that the debate about his state's effort to purge thousands of voters "is over" because over 50 non-citizen voters were proof that that the process needed to go forward. During an interview

obtained by the liberal website Think Progress showed that the "list compiled by the Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in Miami-Dade County alone, hundreds of U.S. citizens are being told they are ineligible to vote."

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.

(h/t: The Huffington Post)

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