Florida's voter purge: Discriminatory?

The Sunshine State is pulling out the stops to prevent non-citizens from voting, but critics say it's all an excuse to suppress the perfectly legal minority vote

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is on a mission to prevent non-citizens from voting, but the information he is using to target potential frauds may be inaccurate.
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Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, has launched a statewide initiative to cleanse voter rolls of non-citizens, in what he claims is an attempt to prevent electoral fraud. Democrats and Latino groups are calling foul, arguing that Scott is targeting minorities and the poor in an attempt to prevent them from reaching the ballot box. The issue could wind up being critical to the presidential race, as Florida is one of the nation's most hotly contested battleground states. (In 2000, a heavily disputed 537 votes gave the presidency to George W. Bush over Al Gore.) Here, a guide to the Florida voter purge that many are calling "discriminatory":

How is Scott weeding out non-citizens?

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