The Secretary of State doesn’t call his plan to remove ineligible voters from the rolls a “purge” or “scrub.” “List management” is Ken Detzner‘s preferred terminology.
But the plan is still raising the ire of Democrats, and supervisors of elections continue to express concerns. Many Democrats believe that Detzner is trying to solve an issue that doesn’t exist while ignoring more pressing elections and voting issues.
“Has there been a clamoring from supervisors?” Rep. Mike Clelland, D-Lake Mary, asked during Tuesday’s House Ethics and Elections Subcommittee hearing.
State elections officials plan to use a federal immigration database to help identify Florida residents who registered to vote illegally. Although there hasn’t been a widespread campaign from supervisors of elections to scrub voter rolls or any evidence of widespread fraud, the effort is needed, said Maria Matthews, director of the state’s Division of Elections.
“This was not prompted by voter fraud, this was prompted by doing list maintenance,” Matthews said, “making sure that the rolls are current and accurate.”
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