Voting still a problem for many legal voters in many Republican Governor/controlled states like Florida. Matthews said she wasn’t sure how frequently records of citizenship for those who are sworn in during naturalization ceremonies are entered into the system. And even after state officials gained access to the SAVE database last year, residents like Yeral Arroliga, 25, who immigrated from Nicaragua in 1995 and has been a Florida voter since 2007, were wrongly identified as noncitizens. Four Polk County residents born in Puerto Rico, which automatically qualifies them for U.S. citizenship, were identified as noncitizens. Matthews told supervisors that it will be up to them to determine the status of voters. Still to be determined: How does one determine who is a citizen? What documents, aside from passports, copies of birth certificates and naturalization certificates, prove citizenship? If there are no documents, can supervisors make a determination? Matthews is leaving it to the locals. Such wide latitude makes some supervisors unsure how to proceed. Read more here: miamiherald/news/politics-government/article1955946.html#storylink=cpy miamiherald/news/politics-government/article1955946.html
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 22:31:48 +0000
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