U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson took to the floor of the Senate on Tuesday to criticize Gov. Rick Scott’s administration for its effort to clean up the state’s voter rolls to remove non-citizens, saying that in searching now for ineligible voters the state risks disenfranchising legal ones.
“The governor and his administration should ensure the credibility of our voter rolls. It should have a program to suppress fraud,” Nelson acknowledged. “But above all else, the state must ensure that every lawful citizen who has the right to vote can do so without impediment.”
