NewsNation   |  October 05, 2012

Judge rules Florida voter purge can proceed

A federal judge has ruled that Florida can go ahead with a voter purge that would remove about 200 potentially ineligible voters from state rolls. NewsNation’s Tamron Hall reports.

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>>> a judge ruled that florida can go with a voter purge. it rejects appeals from the obama administration and several voting rights group saying it violates a federal law of removing voters 90 days from a letter. it was compiled using a homeland security citizenship database that originally contained more than 2,000 names but had hundreds of inaccuracies. the florida secretary of state praised the ruling but groups on posing the purge say it could prevent legitimate votes from being