The presidential elections are just a few months away and it's almost time for Floridians to make their decision.

But 180,000 voters may not get to weigh in as Gov. Rick Scott is pushing to purge the state's voter rolls.

In the words of Gov. Scott, "people lie" about having citizenship when they register to vote, which is why he has signed off on a massive review of the voting rolls.

In a new letter, Democratic members of Florida's congressional delegation are asking Scott to stop the review before it turns into what they call a "purge" of legal voters.

Progressive activist Damien Filer thinks the Republican governor may be playing politics ahead of a major election.

"What they're doing is out of compliance with the national Voting Rights Act," he said. "They're not allowed to be doing this kind of thing this close to an election.  They're not allowed to target particular subsets within the voting electorate, which this clearly appears to be doing."

The voters being flagged are overwhelmingly minorities, who tend to vote Democratic. So far county election officials have found many of them are legal citizens entitled to vote, but that's not stopping the Florida Department of State from expanding its review.

Spokesman Chris Cate said now the department has access to much more accurate information from a federal database.

"This is an election year, but this is not an election-year issue for us," he said. "We're never okay with ineligible voters being on the voter rolls, so, when we got this information we acted as promptly as we felt that the information was reliable.  If we had felt that this information was reliable a year or two years ago, when we actually didn't even have this information yet, we would have acted then."

The members of Congress are also taking issue with what they call a "lack of transparency" in the review process. They argue that what's happening now looks a lot like 2000 and 2004, when thousands of voters were kicked off the rolls with little explanation from the state.

State election officials said it will ultimately be up to county election supervisors as to whether voters who are flagged in the review should be removed from the rolls.

So far there is no deadline on when the state's review will be completed.