The current purging of Florida voter rolls began with a question asked by Gov. Rick Scott.
Last year, Scott asked the former Secretary of State Kurt Browning whether there were non U.S. citizens on Florida’s voter rolls and if those people were voting, myfoxorlando.com reports.
That conversation set the ball rolling and state officials began to work on identifying ineligible voters.
Data analyzed by the Times/Herald found that 6,934 people were removed from the rolls in the first four months of 2012, following felony convictions and that Democrats were three times more likely to be removed than Republicans.
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