Gov. Rick Scott: ‘Debate is over;’ 50 non U.S. citizens voted in elections

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) answers questions about the Department of Justice lawsuit and says that the state had no choice but to sue the U.S. government for not turning over a citizenship database to conduct a ‘non-partisan’ voter purge.

Gov. Scott says, “Our Secretary of State’s office has been working with Homeland Security for months asking for this database so we can do it right. When they, for whatever reason didn’t give it to us, we tried to use our own database to do it. And we know that even with that database we found 100 people that are not entitled to vote. They’re non US citizens. And we know 50 of them voted.”

He adds, “This is not a partisan issue. This is not Republican or Democrat or independent issue. This is an issue that I want, all of us want, everyone wants every U.S. citizen to go and register to vote. Participate in elections. But non-U.S. citizens shouldn’t be doing that.”

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