Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) won’t appeal a federal court ruling that found his administration attempted to remove non-citizens from voter rolls in 2012, violating the National Voter Registration Act.
Scott announced on Thursday that he wouldn’t appeal the decision, giving a big victory to the League of Women Voters and a number of other advocacy groups who said that Scott’s administration tried to disenfranchise minority voters who were likely to vote for President Barack Obama.
“Our goal continues to be 100 percent participation by eligible voters and zero percent fraud,” Walker said in a statement, according to The Tampa Bay Times. “Florida voters deserve an election system they can be proud of.”
As TPM reported in April, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling of 2-1, found that Florida’s move to purge voter rolls of non-citizens violated the National Voter Registration Act’s “90 Days Provision.” That provision says that states must finish “any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists” within 90 days before a primary or general election at the federal level.
Scott’s administration, in response, said that it would announce its decision on what to do next in 2015.
