Florida Is Using Far-Right Data To Cull Voter Rolls

NBC News reports:

Florida wants local elections officials to use data collected by far-right activists, some of whom falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen, to potentially remove people from the state’s voter rolls, according to emails obtained by NBC News.

The network of activists has been collecting voter data in 24 states, and on May 3, one of them emailed the Florida-specific information to a top state election official. It included the names of roughly 10,000 voters from across the state the group insists should be examined for potential removal from the voter rolls, a process commonly referred to as list maintenance.

The state’s chief elections official then forwarded that information to county election supervisors and asked them to “take action.” The “concerned citizen” who sent the May 3 email was Dan Heim, a longtime Florida-based activist who has made unfounded voter fraud claims across the state.

Read the full article. As you’ll see at the link, anti-gay hater Cleta Mitchell has a role in all this. In 2022, Florida secretary of state Cord Byrd was exposed for flying a QAnon flag from his boat.

Florida is using a fraud-hunting tool used by the right to look for voters to remove from the rolls https://t.co/6tf0tA3xan

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— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) May 24, 2024

“Cord Byrd, who cursed at Black Democratic lawmakers” will oversee Florida elections. His wife is on the state Board of Education, helping ban math text books and implement “Don’t Say Gay”. And “…the couple was seen flying a QAnon flag on their boat.” https://t.co/2eATIr5CFV

— Maeve McGoran (@McGMaeve) May 13, 2022