Surrounded by lawmakers, Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session, Friday, April 30, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla.
The Republican governor signed the freshly passed legislation ahead of his impending announcement that he’ll run for reelection in the nation’s largest battleground state. He staged the signing on a live broadcast of Fox & Friends Thursday morning, flanked by a small group of GOP legislators in Palm Beach County. Other media organizations were shut out of the event.“Right now I have what we think is the strongest election integrity measures in the country,” the governor said as he signed it.
“For far too long, Florida’s lawmakers and elected officials have created a vast array of hurdles that have made it more difficult for these and other voters to make their voices heard,” the groups said in their lawsuit, which they planned to file in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, the state capital.
Some of the changes in Florida’s election rules contain similar provisions. Democrats acknowledge that the Florida law won’t be as draconian as the one recently adopted by its neighbor to the north. The newly signed law restricts when ballot drop boxes can be used and who can collect ballots — and how many. To protect against so called “ballot harvesting,” an electoral Good Samaritan can only collect and return the ballots of immediate family and no more than two from unrelated people. Under the new rules, drop boxes must be supervised and would only be available when elections offices and early voting sites are open.
DeSantis had pushed Republican lawmakers to deliver the sweeping rewrites of rules on voting by mail and drop boxes, and to impose new layers of ID requirements for routine changes to a voter’s registration record.
Imagine being so sure that you would lose in a fair election, that you consta put up blockades against people voting.
Thank you RonDeSantisFL . Hopefully this will prevent all those old republicans in Florida from being able to vote by mail and turn Florida blue.
All of these unamerican voter suppression laws will be Sen_JoeManchin and SenatorSinema legacy. This is what they support when they support the filibuster.
Folks, the reason why the gop was dominant in Florida for twenty years is because they made it easier for the olds to vote. They're torching themselves, let them do it.
Why doesn't Florida return to the Jim Crow days and have ballot drop boxes that say 'White ballots only'.
Land of the free they say. I have a right to vote and this Republican buffoon will not tell me how will I vote.
desperate gop will not survive, they are terrorists
The left want to let fraud run elections, because fraudsters tend to vote democrat.
the only way the fascist gop can cling to power is by preventing people from exercising their right to vote.
Nice job Ron, creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Real good use of time.
The irony is that criticizing this is racist because then you are suggesting minorities are too stupid to follow basic rules 🤡🤡🤡
This is how the drop box situation is going to work out: Bill requires boxes be manned. Election officials given no extra funds. Cant afford cost of box supervision. Number of ballot boxes reduced in turn. Reduction primarily in minority strongholds. Voter suppression.
Protecting the Big Lie-Republicans sure hate people voting. It won’t stop this last election proved the power of voting. We’ll wait longer, we’ll vote earlier. You wont suppress out votes.
Fascists
Hey Florida when are y’all able to get rid of this guy? Sincerely the rest of the country.
Your headline says one thing and your photo says another. Stop propping up DeSantis.
'We're doing great things'....the air of self importance is reprehensible
*screams about voter fraud beforehand* *wins election* *still screams about voter fraud* *never finds any* *changes laws anyways*
What are these guardrails? did Jim Crow send those from the grave or are those Trump chains to hold Black & Brown people in more bondage. My message to Democrats and Black & Brown people whose votes are being suppressed by all these new laws, Be Still & Know that I am God-:))
There was no proof of fraud in Florida, so his reasoning is a lie right off the bat.
My home has never been broken into but I still lock the door when I leave. Preventing potential wrongdoing protects the security of the vote. Everyone deserves to know their vote is secure.
Totally unconstitutional !!!
do yall know how many blacks and latins are registered Repulicans; from haitians, jamaicans, bahamians, colombians, cubans, venezuelans? they plant their seeds here for a small government and low tax no-fuss way of life.
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