Sunday, June 3, 2012

Portland marriage proposal goes viral; you'll laugh, you'll cheer

Portland marriage proposal goes viral; you'll laugh, you'll cheer

Published: Friday, May 25, 2012, 2:34 PM     Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012, 5:55 PM

11084319-small.jpgThis is how you propose. Isaac Lamb, a Portland actor, made a video that has gone viral.View full size
Best marriage proposal, ever? You can’t watch it without laughing, cheering, maybe even tearing up. 

On Wednesday, Isaac Lamb, a Portland actor, gathered 60 friends to propose to his girlfriend, Amy Frankel. He put her in the open back of a Honda CRV and gave her some headphones. He wanted to “play her a song.” 

She got a song, all right. The video went viral. 

 “It’s crazy,” Lamb said, Friday, the day he posted the video. “I thought friends and family would like it and I figured that’s where it would end.” 

READ MORE: "Best marriage proposal ever? Portland actor floors his fiancee"


http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2012/05/portland_marriage_proposal_goe.html

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Model 10 Electra located.

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Model 10 Electra located.
I have located the plane on Google. Its the most suitable place to land on Nikumaroro Island and it appears she was flying south and landed in the open area north of the plane going north/south. With no power she may have used what speed she had from landing to sharply turn right to get the plane on higher ground in a possible effort to salvage the plane after her rescue that never came. It appears the area due west is the highest elevation of the island. A good clear outline of the plane can be seen as the vegetation would have to grow around the wings and body. The Electra is facing southwest.

-4.664015,-174.536357

If this photo is correct, the Electra is on the left side of the photo on the high ground buried in the vegetation 800 ft away.

[link to www.panoramio.com]

Bilderberg Meeting: Lord Rothschild, Henry Kissinger and Others Confronted on Camera

Bilderberg Meeting: Lord Rothschild, Henry Kissinger and Others Confronted on Camera

2012 JUNE 2
Posted by Stephen Cook

Bilderberg Meeting: Lord Rothschild, Henry Kissinger and Others Confronted on Camera

American Kabuki posted this first video earlier today, which led me to the second video, below it. Fascinating.
The cameraman is from WeAreChange.org. We certainly are!
This first one is Lord Jacob Rothschild. He is asked some pretty forthright and confronting questions that we would all like answers to. Note the chilling smile towards the end…
This a longer video titled Twelve Confrontations of Bilderberg 2012.
It includes what are known in journalistic circles as “doorstops” with former British PM Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, former NY Governor George Pataki, CNN Founder Ted Turner and others…

Bilderberg Meetings 2012 – Participants

Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2012.html

Breitbart: Glenn Beck is a Liar, Thief and Coward

Breitbart: Glenn Beck is a Liar, Thief and Coward

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June 2, 2012
Several months before his untimely and suspicious death, Andrew Breitbart called Glenn Beck a lair, thief and a coward. Breitbart made the comments on December 11, 2011, on KABC radio in Los Angeles (see the video below).
photoBreitbart: Beck is a snake.
He offered the assessment after Beck characterized Newt Gingrich as a “progressive.” In fact,Gingrich is a dyed-in-the-wool big government globalist, although Breitbart did not characterize him as such.
Breitbart also said Beck is a master thief who steals content from other media personalities and regurgitates it for his own financial benefit.
Alex Jones has on numerous occasions accused Beck of lifting his material.
“It’s very, very painful to see this biological android, a complete actor, reading off teleprompters and singing and dancing around and prancing around, a fairy dancing and prancing around, using my material,” Jones told Joe Hagan. “Glenn Beck climbed over my back. He’s like a fiddler crab that grabbed the shell off my back and scurried over me.”
Beck has practically made a cottage industry out pilfering Jones’ material and attacking him.
In an effort to steer attention away from the crimes of the globalists and center attention on Jones, Beck’s The Blaze recently decided to concentrate on attempting to discredit Jones for simply pointing out the fact that the global elite engage in bizarre behavior.
“An article entitled Alex Jones Believes Bilderberg Attendees Ship in Gold-Covered Roasted Babies to Eat written by Madeleine Morgenstern takes a 30 second clip out of the 30-plus hours of live streaming Infowars has done so far and spins it out of context to imply that Jones was literally saying babies were being delivered for Bilderberg members to eat,” writes Paul Joseph Watson.
“In reality, Jones was engaging in a piece of dark satire based on the Johnathan Swift’s satirical essay A Modest Proposal in which he suggests the Irish eat their own babies. The rant about gold-leaf covered babies was based on a factual news story about a British citizen arrested last month in Thailand for attempting to transport dead babies wrapped in gold leaf foil for black magic rituals.”
Glenn Beck specializes in disinformation ops designed to trick his “conservative” followers and lead them into dead-ends and cul-de-sacs that ultimately neutralize the political opposition. As Breitbart notes, he is accumulating a lot of money in the process.

DEMOCRAT PARTY CONVENTION SCHEDULE

Can't wait!
 

DEMOCRAT PARTY CONVENTION SCHEDULE

4:00 PM   Opening Flag Burning Ceremony
4:05 PM   Singing of "God Damn America" led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright
4:10 PM   Pledge of Allegiance to Obama

4:15 PM   Ceremonial 'I Hate America' led by Michelle Obama
4:30 PM   Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire , Hillary Clinton
4:45 PM   Al Sharpton Leads Castrati Choir in Singing, "Great Balls of Fire"

5:00 PM   UFO Abduction Survival , Joe Biden
5:30 PM   Eliot Spitzer Speaks on "Family Values" via Satellite
5:45 PM   Tribute to All 57 States

6:00 PM   Joe Biden Delivers 100,000-Word Speech Featuring 23-Minute
Question and 2-Hour Answer
8:30 PM   Airing of Grievances by the Clintons
9:00 PM   Bill Clinton Delivers Rousing Endorsement of Obama Girl

9:15 PM    Tribute Film to Freedom Fighters at Gitmo , Michael Moore
9:45 PM    Personal Finance Seminar - Charlie Rangel
10:00 PM  Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners, Rosie O'Donnell

10:30 PM  Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for Iraq & Afghanistan
11:00 PM  Obama Energy Plan Symposium/Tire Gauge Demonstration
11:15 PM  Free Gov. Blagojevich rally

11:30 PM   Obama Accepts Tony and Latin Grammy Awards
11:45 PM   Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish , Obama Presiding
12:00 AM   Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Maher

12:01 AM   Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
12:05 AM   Celestial Choirs Sing
3:00 AM   Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech

Note: There is one omission in the list above: Memorial recognition of
Obama's surrogate son, Trayvon, will be in conjunction with the 12:05
AM event.

Return of the Goddess, 6-5-2012 (and Her Update)… from Portal 2012

Return of the Goddess, 6-5-2012 (and Her Update)… from Portal 2012

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Well I finally felt the movement to put this up here, from Portal 2012. It may be helpful to some of you/us.
My own view of this is that it is a key point on the 2012 timeline events. Here we have the 6-5 Venus transit followed by the 6-6, for those in the western hemisphere countries. And for those in the eastern hemisphere, they are the same day. There is something very potent here.
Anyway, after this “event combo”, I feel there will be rapid “illuminations”, shall we say, or maybe we could say, “apocalypses” (unveilings). For those “ones” (so-called, “dark ones”) that really buy into that EOTW scenario (End of the World), yes, their own personal EOTW (End of their World) will be realized.
And one last note is that I often approach these “all at the same time” events or visualizations this way. If I’m not “right on exact” with the time, I can always “step out” of the 3D timeline, and be there anyway, at “exactly” that time.
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After the great success of World Liberation Day and even greater success of Reboot of the Grid, our efforts for planetary liberation continue. This time, we will meet in groups large and small, as individuals and couples, at the exact time of the Venus transit on June 5th. Masses will gather and visualize the arrival of the Goddess energy so that for the first time in 5000 years we will have the chance to co-create our own spiritual destiny in harmony and replace the outdated society of war and conflict with a more advanced one of spiritual understanding. We need to have 144,000 people doing this visualization with focus to achieve the desired effect.
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On June 5th/6th there will be a Venus transit, a rare cosmic event when planet Venus passes in front of the solar disk. This Venus transit will mark a completion of the 8 year cycle of the Return of the Goddess which started with a previous Venus transit in 2004. Goddess energy is a pure feminine essence of Love that will help us easing the planetary liberation process. Both masculine energies of action and feminine energies of receptivity are needed to complete this process successfully. Removal of all dark entities will be a direct consequence of a newly achieved balance of female and male energies on this planet.
We will all be doing this visualization at the same time, the moment of the Venus transit, which comes this June 5th/6st. Exact times for different time zones are:

3:30 pm HAST June5th (Hawaii)
5:30 pm AKDT June5th (Alaska)
6:30 pm PDT June5th (Los Angeles)
7:30 pm MDT June5th (Denver)
8:30 pm CDT June5th (Houston)
9.30 pm EDT June5th (New York)
10:30 pm BRT June5th (Rio de Janeiro)
2:30 am BST June6th (London)
3:30 am CEST June6th (Paris)
3:30 am SAST June6th (South Africa)
4:30 am EEST June6th (Bulgaria)
5:30 am MSK June6th (Moscow)
7:00 am IST June6th (India)
9:30 am CST June6th (Beijing)
10:30 am JST June6th (Tokyo)
11:30 am AEST June6th (Sydney)
If your place is not listed, you can find the exact transit center time for your location:
http://transitofvenus.nl/wp/where-when/local-transit-times/
Instructions:
1. Relax your mind and body by watching your breath for a few minutes.
2. Visualize a pillar of electric blue Light emanating from the Galactic Central Sun, going through your body to the center of the Earth. Keep this pillar of Light active for a few minutes. Then visualize a loving feminine presence in the shape of a beautiful Goddess descending from the sky and entering your physical body. If you are female, this presence will harmonize your inner woman and make you more loving. If you are male, this presence will make you more balanced in your actions. Stay united with that presence for a while.
3. Visualize bright new spiritual future for humanity, with men and women in perfect understanding, with our society growing beyond need for wars and conflicts as all dark entities, physical and non-physical, are removed from our planet. Visualize all wounds of humanity being healed, all humanity being inspired and guided with everybody having their own connection with their own Soul and the Source in perfect balance of their inner male and female aspects.
Please do this visualization as instructed and do not change it as otherwise it will not have the desired effect.
More information about the Venus transit:
http://www.transitofvenus.org/
About the Goddess energy:
http://www.spiralgoddess.com/
Updates about Return of the Goddess:
http://2012portal.blogspot.com/
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New Crop Circle in UK - gives date of 4th August 2012 !!!

New Crop Circle in UK - gives date of 4th August 2012 !!!
Polar Clock

We believe the formation reported on 2nd June 2012 resembles a polar clock. It is a kind of clock showing not only the time, but also the date.

As the aerial shot was not taken perpendicularly to the formation, we are not sure about the time displayed, but we think that at least the date can be considered correct. When you compare pictures 1 and 2, you can see that the formation tells the following time and date: 19:43:53 on Saturday, 4th August 2012. We have no idea what this particular time might mean. Hope someone will find out why this date should be significant.

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Florida Court Sets Hearing On Obama Ballot Challenge For June 18, 2012

Florida Court Sets Hearing On Obama Ballot Challenge For June 18, 2012

Judge Terry Lewis States "Natural Born Citizen" Definition Will Be Decided

Published: Friday, Jun. 1, 2012 - 2:13 pm
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Activist attorney Larry Klayman announced today that Judge Terry Lewis of Leon County, FL has set a hearing on June 18th, 2012 at 9:00am to hear arguments from both sides about whether the eligibility of President Barack Hussein Obama can be determined in open court.  Judge Lewis made crucial rulings in the famous Bush v. Gore case in 2000, in which Mr. Klayman participated.
Florida's election statutes provide broad protections for voters to ensure the integrity of the election system is beyond reproach.  One of such laws allows voters to challenge the nomination of a candidate who is not eligible for the office he is seeking.  Plaintiff Michael Voeltz, a registered Democrat, challenged the eligibility of President Obama because he was not born to two citizen parents and thus not a "natural born citizen" as required by Article II the U.S. Constitution.
During the hearing over discovery issues, which Mr. Klayman wants to take the week of June 18, Judge Lewis noted that Mr. Klayman's brief cited legal authority that a president, to be eligible, must have two U.S. citizen parents, but President Obama and the other defendants cited no authority to the contrary.  Mr. Klayman had cited the U.S. Supreme Court case of Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875). Judge Lewis ordered further briefing on this issue prior to the hearing.
Klayman stressed that the eligibility is very important particularly with this president, Barack Hussein Obama.  He added: "The framers were not stupid.  They understood that a president with divided loyalties could present a security and other risks for our nation.  Obama's Muslim heritage, which emanates from his Kenyan father (who had to be deported from the U.S.), frankly explains why he sides frequently with and takes actions to further the interests of Muslim nations against the United States; specifically his refusal to take forceful action against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its leaders over nuclear armament and human rights violations and atrocities."
Klayman's work is supported by ConstitutionActionFund.org, a non-profit raising money for the legal challenge.
The case is entitled Voeltz v. Obama, et. al. (No. 2012 CA 467) and is being heard in the Circuit Court Of The Second Judicial Circuit In And For Leon County, Florida.  To request an interview contact Adrienne Mazzone at (561) 750-9800.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/01/4531991/florida-court-sets-hearing-on.html#mi_rss=PR Newswire#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

G. Thomas Gulick Intel Updates

Selected few;

I have contacted one of our top KNOW & UNDERSTAND like-minded relationships for help.

Perhaps more confirmed reporting is best to make my point.

Just reviewed the Problem Bank List & noted 772 problem banks remain on the list.
Delinquent Mortgages as a % of Capital and Loan Loss Reserves are running 67% and seem to average about
45% of the Top-25 U. S. Banks reviewed.

What is the point? Back in the days I was buying banks with my employers money, we walked away if a bank was
more than 3%. Get it? Worse is getting worser!

Steve Quayle on 03/14/2011 reported on information conveyed to him by a trucker who stated he delivered a tractor trailor load
of food to a base manned by Chinese. Brief at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7kdX2gvsk. STEVE QUAYLE ALERT
CHINESE TROOPS 60 MILES SOUTH OF LAREDO TEXAS * The U.S. Naval Map we know is real? Steve provided

Appears JPM will be bailed out again but it will not stop the coming market crash. Bank of America
will fail first; followed by CitiBank. My source is most reliable calling financials accurate. Then the bankster/gangsters will bury their crimes within JP Morgan-Chase. Another merger deal! I suggest you catch my e-letter to one I trust to confirm or deny our latest from those inside the 'Puzzle Palaces' house of cards. 

"He who cannot get to their money; will be just as broke as one that has no money." ~ G. Thomas Gulick &
the keen warning of a run on banks. Fact is, banks run short of cash real quick when a panic happens. Get it? I thought
you would.

Consistently yours,
G. Gulick
HOW MONEY WORKS - SINCE 1970 
----- Original Message -----
To: xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 2:00 AM
Subject: Gulick Here - Let's Talk Bull

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I have been out & about most of the day. While out, I have been doing some powerful thinking.
The main point of my e-letter is spelled out at the end. Items 1-8 spells out what appears is
about to happen. But please allow me to express my new found insights about Operation Deep Sleep.

First, the trivia between Breitbart, Jones with  both on Beck is a prime example why one
must never kill the messenger. The headline is also a hot link if you care to follow this story:

I have completed another Andrew Breitbart file on this end. Obama's players must be happy to see this, sort of,
Hatfields & McCoys fighting. But dead people cannot fight back.
I do not know what you have done with the 150 pdf pages of Tim's Operation Deep Sleep but I have discovered
a bunch of other related operations. Not to take time with the rest of the story, I am listing each for keen awareness.
  1. Operation Deep Sleep -
  2. Project Cloverleaf
  3. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
  4. CIA_PROMIS SOFTWARE-PERFECT SET UP Prosecutor's Management Information System
  5. JPATS*: U.S. Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, procured and droned by Marcy in 1995 through allegedly fraudulent conversions of U.S. Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Fund.
Appears we have bad U. S. Marshalls like bad CIA and bad NSA. My findings are about as secret and bad as it gets! Do you see a lazer dot on me? My findings are 'spot on' and Hillary Clinton is well founded in this 'mell of a hess' too.
A lot of Projects in Process on this end. Expect me to package./zip my findings soon.'
POINT OF MY e-LETTER IS:
Are you aware of Acceleration Of Financial Meltdown Can't Be Stopped / From International Banker Friend

May 31, 2012

Steve, at www.SteveQuayle.com 

The Iron boot has been firmly planted to the pedal of this runaway tractor trailer that is heading off the cliff.
Steve Quayle has made a copy of European insider that seems to know the gameplan of banks about to fail. To avoid
all the 'details' I am going to provide the following for a preview.
Look for these signs next:
1- JPM will be bailed out again but it will not stop the coming market crash. More details will emerge about their derivative swap failure $150 billion and counting.
2-BOA (BAC Bank of America) will fold and be absorbed into JPM as a way to prop up the bleeding Giant. JPM will get the best picking of this deal just like they got with Bear Stearns.
3- Massive layoffs will happen at Citigroup and Wells Fargo
4- Goldman Sachs finally pays the piper, look for massive cuts there as well as BIG Losses
5- Bond market bust which leads to freeze of all bond sales
6- Derivative bust the next one will be BOA followed by Citigroup
7- All CDS-Credit Default Swaps/shorts and swaps will freeze.
8- Total Meltdown of financials . . .
ACTION PLAN – PTOA –“PROTECT THY OWN A _ _.”

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/no-peeing-funny-picture.jpgIf in doubt?
Those who are ready begin to implement GOOD (Get Out Of Dodge) Plan. Keep what you need in paper and what you can afford to lose in banks in order to pay day to day expenses/bills. The rest of your investments/retirements should NOW be pulled from the market and moved to safe haven assets like Precious metals, farmland, fire arms and food. Prepare to ride out what we are calling the coming RESET BUTTON.
Have you picked up on Items 1-8? My past experience with Steve Quayle has been good with 'par excellent' accuracy. What say you? Attached I have included my June copy of Marty Weiss & his SafeMoney Report. Reading between the lines, it appears Steve is first to be so specific as to 'who's who' in the JP Morgan-Chase bringing Bank of America into their fold. Includes Countrywide Bank & Merrill Lynch too.
I have picked up what you do know about. In part, is reported as . . .
The orders to preserve the Status Quo at all cost originate with Obama our sources say. ‘Make certain the banks lose nothing’ is part of the order we hear.
This, if accurate, removes any remaining doubt that their ‘plan’ is to contain the world’s fiat financial crisis as best they can in order to get through the election season and confirms, as WE have reported many times, that Obama says he will allow nothing to interfere with his re-election. # # #
With that kind of talk, where are the mass arrests? I am eager to get my insights to the Bilderberg Group Annual Meeting in Virginia 05-31 - 06-03-2012.
If you need more details from my end, let me know and it's yours. Make sure you know I have not asked others for any help to confirm this history making time.
SEE YOU AT THE TOP TOO?!
Gerry Gulick
HOW MONEY WORKS - SINCE 1970

Florida Defies Feds on Voter Purge

The Rumor Mill News Reading Room 

Florida Defies Feds on Voter Purge
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Date: Sunday, 3-Jun-2012 05:38:04

Please do everthing you can to object to outright foreigners entering into the U.S. and voting to affect state and national policies. Illegal immigrants do enough damage here by robbing the jobs from U.S. Citizens and sending the money out of the country. They should not have the right to vote in elections.
If you, a U.S. Citizen, go to Mexico and try to vote in an election can you imagine what will happen to you?
This is posted in interest of public safety and national security and under the parameters of The Fair Use Clause.
'Florida will defy a federal warning to stop purging people the state suspects aren't U.S. citizens from voter registration rolls'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/florida-voter-purge-federal-warning_n_1564131.html
Despite a Justice Department letter, objections from county elections officials and evidence that a disproportionate number are voters of color, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner's office planned to continue scrubbing the election rolls, a spokesman said Friday. Gov. Rick Scott (R) ordered the search for potentially ineligible voters.
“We have an obligation to make sure the voter rolls are accurate and we are going to continue forward and do everything that we can legally do to make sure than ineligible voters cannot vote,” said Chris Cate, a spokesman for Detzner. “We are firmly committed to doing the right thing and preventing ineligible voters from being able to cast a ballot. We are not going to give up our efforts to make sure the voter rolls are accurate."
Justice Department officials declined to comment on Florida’s plans.
In a letter issued late Thursday, T. Christian Herren Jr., who leads the Justice Department voting section, told Detzner that the state's plan to review the status of the 2,600 suspected non-citizens and purge them if the voters fail to prove citizenship appears to violate the 1964 Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act.
20130601 Florida Letter http://www.scribd.com/doc/95630168/20130601-Florida-Letter
Detzner has said previously that his agency has identified 182,000 voters who were not citizens by comparing voter rolls and driver's license databases. The state's driver's license data contains some citizenship information. Beginning in April, Detzner asked county election officials statewide to contact 2,600 suspect voters by mail. The letters said those who failed to provide evidence of citizenship within 30 days would be purged. They also warned that casting a ballot when ineligible constitutes a felony.
"The Florida Secretary of State is being recalcitrant," said Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of The Advancement Project., a Washington-based voting rights advocacy group that last month asked the Justice Department to investigate. "He wants to move forward despite federal notice of illegality and supervisors of elections' refusal to purge voters. He should just quit it."
Florida is among a small number states, mostly in the South, covered by Section V of the Voting Rights Act, a 1965 law that reinforces voting rights guaranteed in the Constitution. In five Florida counties and other states, election officials have a history of such of egregious and creative efforts to suppress black and Latino votes that any changes in voting–related policy or procedure must first be approved by the Justice Department or a panel of federal judges, Browne Dianis said.
Florida failed to get clearance for its purge or its methods to identify the people the state suspects are non-citizens.
Voting rights advocates have also pointed out the state motor vehicles database is an unreliable way to determine the citizenship of voters, because many people become citizens between license renewals.
Moreover, in an initial list of nearly 3,000 voters the state suspects are non-citizens, blacks and Latinos were disproportionately represented, a coalition of advocacy groups said in a statement Thursday. A Miami Herald analysis
found nearly 60 percent of the people on the list to be Latino. Hispanic voters constitute just 13 percent of the state's electorate, according to federal data.
The National Voter Registration Act requires states to make every effort to monitor and maintain clean and accurate voter rolls, Browne Dianis said. But the same law also says efforts must take place 90 days or more before a federal election begins. Florida voters are set to vote in a primary Aug. 14 that includes candidates seeking congressional seats -- meaning the state has missed the three-month deadline.
Florida interprets the laws governing voting differently, said Cate, the secretary of state's spokesman. And the state's efforts have already proven effective, he said. Cate pointed to Miami-Dade County, where warning letters were first mailed to suspect voters.
Miami-Dade County election officials issued 1,570 warning letters, said Christina White, the county chief deputy supervisor of elections. Of these, 13 people responded indicating they are not citizens and have been removed from the voter rolls. One of the voters cast one ballot in 1996. Another voted once in 2000 and again in 2004. Their names will be forwarded to the state’s attorney’s office for possible prosecution as required by law, White said.
However, Miami-Dade County will not purge other voters from the rolls because of the large number of citizens included on the state’s suspect voter list. Nearly 450 voters who received warning letters provided proof of citizenship and another 35 have made plans to do so. About 1,000 voters have not responded, White said.
“The law says that the supervisor, only on a preponderance of evidence, should be removing people form the rolls,” said White. “We just didn’t feel that we didn’t have the preponderance of evidence that the supervisor needs to make a call on someone’s eligibility at this time that we haven’t heard from.”
Election officials in other counties around the state -– both Democrats and Republicans -- have questioned the state’s suspect voter list and have expressed indignation about the purge.
In Broward County, a 91-year-old World War II veteran was forced to provide proof of his citizenship in order to remain on the voter rolls. And in Seminole County, an election official tweeted a picture of himself with one man who received a warning letter. In the picture, the two men stood side by side, holding the suspect voter’s U.S. passport.
On Friday, a lawyer with the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections issued a memo suggesting that all 67 counties stop the purge until the concerns raised by the Justice Department are addressed by the state or a court order. The association is a trade group for county election officials.
State election officials in Colorado and New Mexico, states with significant Latino populations, have also launched efforts to identify and purge suspected non-citizens from voter rolls. Justice Department officials declined to comment Friday on those efforts.
"We all benefit when [voter] list maintenance occurs within the bounds of federal law,” said Myrna Perez, senior council at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. “Nobody benefits form inaccurate voter rolls. But it’s also certainly the case that you have wildly different things happening not only from state to state, but sometimes from county to county.”
States should make their methods for identifying and purging voters known and give voters time to object or correct errors before an election, said Perez.
UPDATE 9:52 p.m.: This story was changed to include new information about the Florida State Association of Supervisors' advisory memo issued to county election officials Friday.

The Bankers ---- Taking Care Of Us?

SUNDAY, JUNE 03, 2012