Thursday, June 20, 2019

Florida GOP concoct a new scheme to make it harder for students to vote

In 2014 former GOP Secretary of State Ken Detzner, an appointee of Gov. Rick Scott, took that to the extreme with an order banning county election officials from setting up any early voting sites on college campuses. 
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Federal District Judge Mark Walker struck down that order as an unconstitutional burden on students’ voting rights.
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But the GOP has not given up, a new elections bill under consideration by the legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis, SB 7066, would effectively accomplish the same thing, making it impossible to set up early voting sites on most college campuses. HERE

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