Rick Scott's Voter Purge ruled illegal by Appeals Court

[Nyvin]

So Rick's 2012 voter purge 55 days before the 2012 election was just ruled to be an illegal action since it violated the 90 day safety window discussed in the 1993 National Voter Registration act.

Obama won Florida in despite Rick's best attempts to thwart the election in favor of the Republicans, but the move will still cost him in the year that's he's already polling significantly behind Crist. I'd say this is pretty close to the nail in the coffin for Rick Scott, and yet another Governor house going to the democrats...right in time for 2016.

Maybe the SCOTUS ruling will bring him back once all the billionaires (Kochs...) pump money his way.

Rick Scott has lost nearly every single poll to Charlie Crist, and this appeals ruling certainly won't help him.

 

[Disir]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

 

[Toro]

I think he's going to win.

I might vote for him.

 

[thereisnospoon]

So Rick's 2012 voter purge 55 days before the 2012 election was just ruled to be an illegal action since it violated the 90 day safety window discussed in the 1993 National Voter Registration act.

Obama won Florida in despite Rick's best attempts to thwart the election in favor of the Republicans, but the move will still cost him in the year that's he's already polling significantly behind Crist. I'd say this is pretty close to the nail in the coffin for Rick Scott, and yet another Governor house going to the democrats...right in time for 2016.

Maybe the SCOTUS ruling will bring him back once all the billionaires (Kochs...) pump money his way.

Rick Scott has lost nearly every single poll to Charlie Crist, and this appeals ruling certainly won't help him.

Yeah..Getting dead people off the rolls, removing those registered in more than one county and removing people no longer residing within the State is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO criminal..
You ******* libs will stop at nothing to fix elections.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

Based on WHAT?

 

[thereisnospoon]

I think he's going to win.

I might vote for him.

Of course he's going to win.
These far left moonbats make these crazy statements such as the one by the OP above...
Statements unsupported by any facts.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

If there were prison for stupid people, you'd be in maximum security.

 

[Defiant1]

So Rick's 2012 voter purge 55 days before the 2012 election was just ruled to be an illegal action since it violated the 90 day safety window discussed in the 1993 National Voter Registration act.

Obama won Florida in despite Rick's best attempts to thwart the election in favor of the Republicans, but the move will still cost him in the year that's he's already polling significantly behind Crist. I'd say this is pretty close to the nail in the coffin for Rick Scott, and yet another Governor house going to the democrats...right in time for 2016.

Maybe the SCOTUS ruling will bring him back once all the billionaires (Kochs...) pump money his way.

Rick Scott has lost nearly every single poll to Charlie Crist, and this appeals ruling certainly won't help him.

There is no safety window for people who are illegally registered to vote.

 

[Disir]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

If there were prison for stupid people, you'd be in maximum security.

Scott resigned as CEO in July 1997, less than four months after the inquiry became public. Company executives said had Scott remained CEO, the entire chain could have been in jeopardy.

During his 2010 race, the Miami Herald reported that Scott had said he would have immediately stopped his company from committing fraud — if only “somebody told me something was wrong.” But there were such warnings in the company’s annual public reports to stockholders — which Scott had to sign as president and CEO.

Scott wanted to fight the accusations, but the corporate board of the publicly traded company wanted to settle.

In December 2000, the U.S. Justice Department announced that Columbia/HCA agreed to pay $840 million in criminal fines, civil damages and penalties.

Among the revelations from the 2000 settlement:

• Columbia billed Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs for tests that were not necessary or had not been ordered by physicians.

• The company attached false diagnosis codes to patient records to increase reimbursement to the hospitals.

• The company illegally claimed non-reimbursable marketing and advertising costs as community education.

• Columbia billed the government for home healthcare visits for patients who did not qualify to receive them.

The government settled a second series of similar claims with Columbia/HCA in 2002 for an additional $881 million. The total for the two fines was $1.7 billion.

On Scott’s 2010 campaign website, he admitted to the $1.7 billion fine, though the link is no longer on the site.

The fine

The fine clearly set a record, though the Justice Department (and media reports at the time) were not always consistent in their terminology, sometimes describing it as the “largest government fraud settlement in U.S. History” and other times more specifically as the “largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. History.”

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that officials refer to Columbia/HCA as “largest healthcare fraud” rather than the more narrow term “Medicare fraud” because it involved defrauding other government programs such as Medicaid rather than Medicare exclusively. The Justice Department described in detail the various ways the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs here.

Read more here: Rick Scott ‘oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history,’ Florida Democratic Party says - Political Currents - MiamiHerald.com

 

[Disir]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

If there were prison for stupid people, you'd be in maximum security.

The costs and benefits of the law — and the outcome of the court case — could reverberate nationwide. This week, Georgia passed its own drug welfare law.

Since Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill into law last year, 25 states have considered similar legislation, Newton said.

Data about the law’s cost may impact the court of public opinion, but Jenn Meale, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said it won’t play a role in the legal proceedings.

That’s because ACLU’s case rests on whether the law violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against "unreasonable searches" by the government.

"Any costs associated with the program are irrelevant to the analysis of whether the statute is constitutional," Meale said.

Of the 4,086 applicants who scheduled drug tests while the law was enforced, 108 people, or 2.6 percent, failed, most often testing positive for marijuana. About 40 people scheduled tests but canceled them, according to the Department of Children and Families, which oversees Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, known as the TANF program.

The numbers, confirming previous estimates, show that taxpayers spent $118,140 to reimburse people for drug test costs, at an average of $35 per screening.

The state’s net loss? $45,780.

"That’s not counting attorneys and court fees and the thousands of hours of staff time it took to implement this policy," Newton said.

The law also didn’t impact the number of people who applied for benefits.

The findings don’t ruffle supporters of the law, who say that its primary purpose is to make sure taxpayer money doesn’t supplement drug use.

"It’s not about money, it’s about the drug issue," said Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Lecanto, who sponsored the legislation. "It’s about using every tool we have in the toolbox to fight drugs."

Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, said the governor agreed: The drug welfare law is about protecting children and getting parents back to work.

"It is important to ensure that people who receive TANF dollars use the cash assistance appropriately and not spend it on illegal drugs," she said.

Smith said he believes the law helps keep people off drugs and that there’s undocumented savings in the form of less prison costs and fewer broken families.

Read more here: Florida's welfare drug tests cost more money than state saves, data shows - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com

 

[Disir]

So Rick's 2012 voter purge 55 days before the 2012 election was just ruled to be an illegal action since it violated the 90 day safety window discussed in the 1993 National Voter Registration act.

Obama won Florida in despite Rick's best attempts to thwart the election in favor of the Republicans, but the move will still cost him in the year that's he's already polling significantly behind Crist. I'd say this is pretty close to the nail in the coffin for Rick Scott, and yet another Governor house going to the democrats...right in time for 2016.

Maybe the SCOTUS ruling will bring him back once all the billionaires (Kochs...) pump money his way.

Rick Scott has lost nearly every single poll to Charlie Crist, and this appeals ruling certainly won't help him.

Yeah..Getting dead people off the rolls, removing those registered in more than one county and removing people no longer residing within the State is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO criminal..
You ******* libs will stop at nothing to fix elections.

How much has Scott spent total on legal fees that have been bounced by the courts for his bs? How much all together? Any clue? I'll wait.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

Once a crook, always a crook. Medicare fraudster.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

Once a crook, always a crook. Medicare fraudster.

You just go on posting stupid stuff.
I guess you must prefer looking ridiculous.
Fine.

 

[thereisnospoon]

So Rick's 2012 voter purge 55 days before the 2012 election was just ruled to be an illegal action since it violated the 90 day safety window discussed in the 1993 National Voter Registration act.

Obama won Florida in despite Rick's best attempts to thwart the election in favor of the Republicans, but the move will still cost him in the year that's he's already polling significantly behind Crist. I'd say this is pretty close to the nail in the coffin for Rick Scott, and yet another Governor house going to the democrats...right in time for 2016.

Maybe the SCOTUS ruling will bring him back once all the billionaires (Kochs...) pump money his way.

Rick Scott has lost nearly every single poll to Charlie Crist, and this appeals ruling certainly won't help him.

Yeah..Getting dead people off the rolls, removing those registered in more than one county and removing people no longer residing within the State is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO criminal..
You ******* libs will stop at nothing to fix elections.

How much has Scott spent total on legal fees that have been bounced by the courts for his bs? How much all together? Any clue? I'll wait.

It's NOT BS.....Purging the rolls of dead people and those no longer living in the state goes to protecting the integrity( that word is kryptonite to liberals) of the election process.
Of course you will never see it that way. Because on planet liberal, winning an election by any means necessary simply ensures what should be. That is political power in perpetuity.
With all the voter fraud being exposed, eventually there will be a court that reverses this path of stupid and insane political correctness. That's all it is.
Imagine, "oh no....You can't take those dead people's voter registration away! Suppose they come back to life?".....That's what you're really saying.
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Nope....No problems at all.
You people live in your own reality.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

If there were prison for stupid people, you'd be in maximum security.

The costs and benefits of the law — and the outcome of the court case — could reverberate nationwide. This week, Georgia passed its own drug welfare law.

Since Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill into law last year, 25 states have considered similar legislation, Newton said.

Data about the law’s cost may impact the court of public opinion, but Jenn Meale, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said it won’t play a role in the legal proceedings.

That’s because ACLU’s case rests on whether the law violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against "unreasonable searches" by the government.

"Any costs associated with the program are irrelevant to the analysis of whether the statute is constitutional," Meale said.

Of the 4,086 applicants who scheduled drug tests while the law was enforced, 108 people, or 2.6 percent, failed, most often testing positive for marijuana. About 40 people scheduled tests but canceled them, according to the Department of Children and Families, which oversees Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, known as the TANF program.

The numbers, confirming previous estimates, show that taxpayers spent $118,140 to reimburse people for drug test costs, at an average of $35 per screening.

The state’s net loss? $45,780.

"That’s not counting attorneys and court fees and the thousands of hours of staff time it took to implement this policy," Newton said.

The law also didn’t impact the number of people who applied for benefits.

The findings don’t ruffle supporters of the law, who say that its primary purpose is to make sure taxpayer money doesn’t supplement drug use.

"It’s not about money, it’s about the drug issue," said Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Lecanto, who sponsored the legislation. "It’s about using every tool we have in the toolbox to fight drugs."

Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, said the governor agreed: The drug welfare law is about protecting children and getting parents back to work.

"It is important to ensure that people who receive TANF dollars use the cash assistance appropriately and not spend it on illegal drugs," she said.

Smith said he believes the law helps keep people off drugs and that there’s undocumented savings in the form of less prison costs and fewer broken families.

Read more here: Florida's welfare drug tests cost more money than state saves, data shows - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com

And among other unrelated items, the sun will continue to rise in the East..
You posted this why?
Is this in response to my question as to why you think the governor of Florida should be in prison?
I know why you think this...Because Gov Scott is a non liberal.
Now, this is no longer a discussion. I've stated my piece. I've spoken and that's that...

 

[thereisnospoon]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

If there were prison for stupid people, you'd be in maximum security.

Scott resigned as CEO in July 1997, less than four months after the inquiry became public. Company executives said had Scott remained CEO, the entire chain could have been in jeopardy.

During his 2010 race, the Miami Herald reported that Scott had said he would have immediately stopped his company from committing fraud — if only “somebody told me something was wrong.” But there were such warnings in the company’s annual public reports to stockholders — which Scott had to sign as president and CEO.

Scott wanted to fight the accusations, but the corporate board of the publicly traded company wanted to settle.

In December 2000, the U.S. Justice Department announced that Columbia/HCA agreed to pay $840 million in criminal fines, civil damages and penalties.

Among the revelations from the 2000 settlement:

• Columbia billed Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs for tests that were not necessary or had not been ordered by physicians.

• The company attached false diagnosis codes to patient records to increase reimbursement to the hospitals.

• The company illegally claimed non-reimbursable marketing and advertising costs as community education.

• Columbia billed the government for home healthcare visits for patients who did not qualify to receive them.

The government settled a second series of similar claims with Columbia/HCA in 2002 for an additional $881 million. The total for the two fines was $1.7 billion.

On Scott’s 2010 campaign website, he admitted to the $1.7 billion fine, though the link is no longer on the site.

The fine

The fine clearly set a record, though the Justice Department (and media reports at the time) were not always consistent in their terminology, sometimes describing it as the “largest government fraud settlement in U.S. History” and other times more specifically as the “largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. History.”

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that officials refer to Columbia/HCA as “largest healthcare fraud” rather than the more narrow term “Medicare fraud” because it involved defrauding other government programs such as Medicaid rather than Medicare exclusively. The Justice Department described in detail the various ways the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs here.

Read more here: Rick Scott ‘oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history,’ Florida Democratic Party says - Political Currents - MiamiHerald.com

Ok....It's a story....With a very long stretch.
If the doings of underlings were to be accounted to the guy or gal at the top, the CEO if GM, using your logic, should be in prison right now.....
Since we do not live in this type of society, the people that actually DO THE DEED are punished.
Look, you hate Scott because he is not liberal. In your world, the very word "conservative" makes your blood boil. You people believe that all non libs are criminals. That's ok....
You can 'believe' whatever you wish.
Save it for your lefty cul de sac coffee klatch.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Rick Scott belongs in prison. Really.

If there were prison for stupid people, you'd be in maximum security.

The costs and benefits of the law — and the outcome of the court case — could reverberate nationwide. This week, Georgia passed its own drug welfare law.

Since Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill into law last year, 25 states have considered similar legislation, Newton said.

Data about the law’s cost may impact the court of public opinion, but Jenn Meale, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said it won’t play a role in the legal proceedings.

That’s because ACLU’s case rests on whether the law violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against "unreasonable searches" by the government.

"Any costs associated with the program are irrelevant to the analysis of whether the statute is constitutional," Meale said.

Of the 4,086 applicants who scheduled drug tests while the law was enforced, 108 people, or 2.6 percent, failed, most often testing positive for marijuana. About 40 people scheduled tests but canceled them, according to the Department of Children and Families, which oversees Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, known as the TANF program.

The numbers, confirming previous estimates, show that taxpayers spent $118,140 to reimburse people for drug test costs, at an average of $35 per screening.

The state’s net loss? $45,780.

"That’s not counting attorneys and court fees and the thousands of hours of staff time it took to implement this policy," Newton said.

The law also didn’t impact the number of people who applied for benefits.

The findings don’t ruffle supporters of the law, who say that its primary purpose is to make sure taxpayer money doesn’t supplement drug use.

"It’s not about money, it’s about the drug issue," said Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Lecanto, who sponsored the legislation. "It’s about using every tool we have in the toolbox to fight drugs."

Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, said the governor agreed: The drug welfare law is about protecting children and getting parents back to work.

"It is important to ensure that people who receive TANF dollars use the cash assistance appropriately and not spend it on illegal drugs," she said.

Smith said he believes the law helps keep people off drugs and that there’s undocumented savings in the form of less prison costs and fewer broken families.

Read more here: Florida's welfare drug tests cost more money than state saves, data shows - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com

And you chose to post this why? I don't see the problem here.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Florida republicans have a propensity to enact un-Constitutional policies and measures, such as denying in-state college tuition to American citizens and Florida residents whose parents are undocumented, violating the 4th Amendment rights of American citizens residing in Florida who apply for public assistance, and now this illegal voter purge.

As is the case with most republicans in the rest of the Nation, Florida republicans have nothing but contempt for the Constitution and its case law.

 

[JakeStarkey]

"Of course you will never see it that way. "

podjo, the appeals court does not see it your way.

 

[Nyvin]

Yeah..Getting dead people off the rolls, removing those registered in more than one county and removing people no longer residing within the State is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO criminal..
You ******* libs will stop at nothing to fix elections.

How much has Scott spent total on legal fees that have been bounced by the courts for his bs? How much all together? Any clue? I'll wait.

It's NOT BS.....Purging the rolls of dead people and those no longer living in the state goes to protecting the integrity( that word is kryptonite to liberals) of the election process.
Of course you will never see it that way. Because on planet liberal, winning an election by any means necessary simply ensures what should be. That is political power in perpetuity.
With all the voter fraud being exposed, eventually there will be a court that reverses this path of stupid and insane political correctness. That's all it is.
Imagine, "oh no....You can't take those dead people's voter registration away! Suppose they come back to life?".....That's what you're really saying.
That woman who?s challenging Indiana?s voter ID law? Registered to vote in two states. « Hot Air
Did Obama supporter vote 6 times in 2012? Ohio poll worker target of investigation | Fox News

Nope....No problems at all.
You people live in your own reality.

The people who were purged was not what was deemed illegal. It was the fact that the purge took place 55 days before an election. If the purge was needed and did just remove invalid voters that needed to be removed...why break the rules and do it 55 days before a major election? Why not just do it outside the 90 day safety window?