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Florida Governor Rick Scott hasn't taken time out of his busy schedule to directly respond to the Justice Department's demand that he cease purging voters, but local election supervisors are complying with the DOJ's demand and refusing to follow Scott's orders.

Florida elections supervisors said Friday they will discontinue a state-directed effort to remove names from county voter rolls because they believe the state data is flawed and because the U.S. Department of Justice has said the process violates federal voting laws...

The Justice Department letter and mistakes that the 67 county elections supervisors have found in the state list make the scrub undoable, said Martin County Elections Supervisor Vicki Davis, president of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections…

Ron Labasky, the association’s general counsel, sent a memo to the 67 supervisors Friday telling them to stop processing the list.

A large number of the state's supervisors, who are now refusing to carry out Rick Scott's plans, are Republicans. Credit where its due.