One of the most high-profile civil rights cases Gore has litigated in
recent years is the Florida Purge case. This case brought many of us to
the floor to denounce yet another attempt at voter suppression that was
designed to alter the balance of state politics. The state of Florida
was found to have violated the National Voter Registration Act with a
systemic purge of voters it suspected of being non-citizens. As the New
York Times wrote of Florida's voter restriction attempt:
The program to identify and remove noncitizens from the
rolls prompted a national outcry and several lawsuits in 2012
because it was riddled with mistakes and was being pushed
through months before the election. A number of people on the
lists, which were sent by the state to county election
supervisors, were, in fact, citizens (including the two lead
plaintiffs in the lawsuit). Just as we opposed the nomination of Sen.
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