And BTW: Even as a conservative, I think corporations like The Sierra Club, the ACLU, unions and even OWS are and should be legally entitled to pool their resources to exercise freedom of speech. Otherwise, rich owners of media (yes, like Rupert Murdoch) will own the information, and bend it all they want, like the MSM did for years before talk radio and the internet.

And he put Detzner on notice that he would be available for future emergency hearings if the state “ramps up” the voter purge without making sure the list was less error-riddled.”"”

Really doesn’t sound like a Scott victory at all to me.

Sounds more like he was caught with his hands in the cookie jar and got off with a slap on the wrist instead of being sent straight to his room without supper.

Agreed. That is why illegal votes, the few that are cast, are almost always prosecuted. The Republican myth that dozens of illegal votes happen each election is simply a bunch of bull. It only happens rarely. And those people should be — and ARE — prosecuted for it.

“”"it makes sense to check the voter list periodically.”"”

The County Supervisors of Elections ALREADY DO THIS every odd-numbered year. So, they did it as recently as 2011. Rick Scott went ahead and forced them to do it again in 2012 using his database of 180,000 people. The SOE said, get that stuff out of here and the purge died on the vine, so to speak.

Btw, for some reason Rick Scott won’t divulge ANY information about this 180,000 person database. Gee, I wonder why.

Democrats have a civil right to vote as many times as they possibly can, under as many registrations as they can.

Federal law. Look it up.

I find nothing wrong with this. I just think you will always find people on either end of the polticial spectrum that cannot think for themselves.

The State of Florida has a constitutional right, nay duty, to ensure that only eligible citizens vote! Illegal aliens should not be influencing our democratic process.

This is a great triumph for Governor Scott .. and for Florida .. and for democracy! =)

The purge has stopped, so it’s no longer breaking the law.

The judge reminded both sides of a need for cooperation, which makes a ton of sense.

Common sense that apparently eluded Gov Scott in, first, asking for the impossible and, second, moving forward with a corrupt illegal purge.

My only hope is that the SOE’s continue to resist the purge and refuse to re-start it.

Going by the complete professionalism of the vast majority of SOE’s (on a bipartisan basis), I am actually not so worried about a new purge going through without further outcry and lawsuits. The die has been cast. The purge is done. Thank God.