Floridians targeted by Florida Governor Rick Scott’s voter purge held a press conference on Wednesday calling on the governor to stop the purge and end the discrimination against eligible minority voters. The purge has improperly identified thousands of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.

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Lawsuit calls Fla. voter purge discrimination

WSVN Ch. 7

Organizations that work with immigrants and Puerto Ricans filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a Miami federal court. The lawsuit contends the push to remove voters violates federal law because it's within 90 days of an election. The groups also contend the effort is discriminatory because Hispanics represent a majority of names on the list created by state election officials.



Lawsuit Filed in Miami Claims Florida Voter Purge Is Discriminatory

By Amara Sohn

NBC 6 Miami

Bustamante's experience is similar to dozens of others in South Florida. That led the Service Employees International Union and other community organizations, along with the Duane Morris law firm, to file a lawsuit in federal court in Miami on Tuesday claiming discrimination. It's the latest attempt, following the Department of Justice’s lawsuit, to stop the Sunshine State from purging voters.



Lawsuit claims voter purge illegally targets minorities

By Steve Bousquet

Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau

A string of voter advocacy groups sued Florida on Tuesday, claiming the state's recent noncitizen voter purge unfairly discriminates against minority voters…The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, Florida New Majority and SEIU United, a labor union representing health care workers.



Florida hit with new lawsuit over voter purge effort

Reuters

A coalition of voting rights organizations, including the Fair Elections Legal Network, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami on behalf of various plaintiffs. They included the Florida Immigrant Coalition, the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights and a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union.



Another Legal Attack on Florida's Voter Purge

Courthouse News Service

Four civil rights groups, a union and two voters sued Secretary of State Ken Detzner in Federal Court over Florida's purge of its voting rolls.