The illegal war to disenfranchise voters.

I want to tell you about a subtle, anti-American trend to violate the US Constitution's 15th Amendment and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (that was renewed for another 25 years, in 2006 by the US Senate on a 98 - 0 vote.)

First of all, keep in mind that at the end of last month (August 2012), Florida had 11,583,367 registered voters.

1.6% -- In May of this year, Florida officials announced that they suspected as many as 182,000 registered voters were not US citizens; in other words, Hispanics.

0.022% -- In June of this year, Florida officials moved to purge 2,600 people from the list of registered voters, who were thought to be non-citizens; the US Department of Justice stepped in to block their actions.

0.002% -- This month, the DOJ agreed to open up their list of legal citizens to the State of Florida, so that they could find the discrepancies.  The other week, Florida announced that it found 207 illegal registrations.

0.0003% -- That 207 was reduced to 198, and upon checking against the Florida voter database, only 38 people who had registered illegally, had actually ever voted, and of those 38, only 16 had voted twice.

Now think about this.  Had no one stepped in, Florida would have purged 181,802 registered American citizens from their voter rolls, disenfranchising their rights, as guaranteed by the US Constitution, and in direct violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

There is a term, fail-safe, that distinguishes failure that causes no harm, as opposed to failure that results in damages.  If Florida had kept all of those illegally registered voters on the rolls, the elections would have resulted in a fail-safe condition.  If Florida had been allowed to purge that initial 182,000, the elections would have resulted in a complete disaster.

Which side are you on...the fail-safe or the complete disaster?