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180,000 non-residents could be registered to vote in Florida
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason May 11, 2012 06:20pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Florida Times-Union |
| News Date | Friday, May 11, 2012 01:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TALLAHASSEE - An estimated 180,000 non-U.S. residents are registered to vote in Florida, according to state records. It's a tightly held secret not shared with county election officials or the state's election chief even after he took the job.
The large number of non-residents potentially on state voter rolls was first identified in early 2011 when the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles turned over residency information to the Department of State.
Using a 1.4 million voter sample, the state estimated at the time that there were "almost 900,000 voters who may or may not be U.S. citizens" in Florida, according to documents obtained by the Times-Union. Verification of citizenship has whittled that number to the current 180,000.
The group, termed "immigrants," is composed of people who are in the United States legally on a permanent basis. A separate group of roughly 2,600 "non-immigrants" — people here legally on a temporary basis — also may be registered. |
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