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Democrats Mad: Non-citizens Can't Vote in Florida

The Democrats' election-stealing playbook calls for counting every illegal "vote," but a federal judge in Florida has issued a ruling against them and for fair elections.

More than 10,000 foreigners, and people too stupid to check a box on the registration form indicating that they were American citizens, won't get to help decide the election Tuesday, thanks to U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King in Miami.

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Democrats, Big Labor's AFL-CIO and other left-wing groups had sued elections officials in Democrat-run Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties and elsewhere, but King's ruling Tuesday noted that people had to take responsibility for completing the simple forms and could not blame elections supervisors.

"I don't think the federal and state requirements, which are in place to prevent voter fraud, are unreasonable," Ed Pozzuoli, a lawyer for the Broward Republican Party, told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Illegal voters "dilute" votes cast by legitimate voters, he noted.

Alia Faraj of the Florida Department of State noted: "It's an anti-fraud measure. It's to protect the voter. It's the law, and we stand by that."

Pro-Kerry groups grumbled that the ruling would exclude more than 14,000 (illegitimate) voters. Hooray!

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