TALLAHASSEE · The head of Florida's elections division resigned Monday amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter rolls.
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Hours earlier, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson joined a lawsuit to force state election officials to reveal the names of 47,000 suspected felons who could be dropped from voting lists, saying he wanted to be sure mistakes in 2000 are not repeated.

Even a former state Republican Party executive called Kast's resignation "very strange."

"The timing is very suspicious," said Geoffrey Becker, now a GOP consultant. "I know there's a lot of concern about getting out the message that voting is OK this time."

Kast's sudden resignation was the No. 1 topic for county election supervisors from around the state who gathered Monday in Key West for a five-day meeting, a conference where Kast is scheduled to appear.