On April 29, the Florida legislature passed SB 228 Committee Substitute, which lets individuals register to vote on-line. Here is the text of the bill. The process is entirely electronic for applicants who already have a Florida drivers license or state I.D. card. If the individual does not, then the system prompts the applicant to print out a form, sign it, and mail it in.
The Secretary of State, Ken Detzler, is opposed to the bill. Detzler is appointed by the Governor, Rick Scott. It is not known if the Governor will sign the bill. The bill passed overwhelmingly in both houses of the legislature.
Patently unconstitutional!
The Founding Fathers never intended to allow citizens to vote just because they passed a driver’s test.
Where is the evidence that the voter owns land?
And owns a pair of testicles?
And is white?
What’s become of this country? Illegal aliens will be driving to the polls in the tens and twenties if this goes through.
This will allow all the illegal immigrants to become voters.
That’s what it is all about across the country.
With a republican in control I am surprised he wants to increase the democratic voters.
Citizen ship is not needed for a driver license. Another scam on the people who actually came here legally.
“In the tens and twenties” is just about right.
Republicans have about a third of our electorate believing that all of this country’s economic and social problems can be blamed on “wetbacks.” And why not? Fingering “them” as the “real problem” is a tactic that has been successful for millennia.
BTW Demo Rep – I’ve been asking you for months to substantiate your claim that illegal aliens have been voting in droves in our elections. Still waiting for your evidence. Maybe A.L.E.C. can write some model evidence for you. Meanwhile, chomp on this, taken from:
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/sep/12/charlie-crist/charlie-crist-says-secretary-state-put-together-li/
By 2012, the Division of Elections put together a list of about 180,000 potential noncitizens based on driver’s license data.
The state whittled the list down to about 2,600 names and sent them to county election supervisors in April 2012. Liberal groups criticized the list that they said disproportionately targeted Hispanics and other minorities. Supervisors found all sorts of errors and would later use words such as “sloppy” and “embarrassing” to describe the state initiative. One of the problems was that the driver’s license data doesn’t get updated when a legal resident later becomes a citizen.
By September 2012, the Division of Elections said it had confirmed 207 noncitizens on the voter rolls and that the names would be provided to county elections supervisors to contact the voters. Any that matched federal homeland security data would be removed.
Later that month the state produced a new list of 198 potentially ineligible voters. But by then, supervisors were fed up with the timing and process, and the effort appeared to fizzle out.
A year later, in August 2013, news broke that the state was about to launch another round of searching for noncitizens on the voter rolls.
So what was the total removed?
PolitiFact Florida asked the division of elections for the total number of noncitizens removed, including a breakdown by county, during 2012. The best figures we could obtain from the state only included those removed as of Aug. 1, 2012.
We counted 85 who were listed as being removed because they were “not a U.S. citizen.” (A few additional voters on that list were removed for other reasons, such as being dead or moving out of state. One category for removal was “request by voter,” though it doesn’t explain why the voters requested it.)
As a back-stop, we next checked in directly with some of the county supervisors of elections to see how many noncitizen voters they removed from the rolls. Their answers made it clear it was more than 10.
Miami-Dade: 16 voters removed.
Collier: 36 removed.
Broward: Seven voters removed.
Orange: Seven voters removed.
Lee: Six voters removed.
Hillsborough: Two voters removed.
Pasco: Two voters removed.
Pinellas: Six voters removed.
I believe that on-line registration will eventually become law in all states. It’s cheaper – even if there is a possibility for fraud.
I hope that Alabama will allow on-line signing of signatures for a 3rd party/Independent candidate to get on the ballot. There is currently a law which indicates such is legal now, and I am waiting a decision from the legal department of the Alabama Secretary of State to determine if it can be used. I’m praying it will be allowed. For if it does, it will be so much easier for a 3rd party/Independent Party to get signatures for ballot access!