R i g h t a r d i a: Florida legislature passes vote suppression bills

Monday, May 2, 2011

Florida legislature passes vote suppression bills

TALLAHASSEE – Floridians are concerned about a legislative proposal they say would dramatically alter access to the voting booths. the groups plan to raise their voices in opposition at the state Capitol on Monday morning.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said:

We’ve got kids dying in wars for Democracy – and the right to vote is Democracy. This piece of legislation would hinder that right for an awful lot of people.

In fact, several supervisors of elections in Florida already have estimated the measure would cut early voting from 14 days to six. This will disenfranchise a significant number of voters.

Rightardia believes that is the purpose of the bill: to suppress voting. Jeb bush did the same thing in 2001 and handed a presidential win to his brother, GW Bush.

The legislation also prohibits address changes on Election Day would result in longer lines at the polls and, thus, discourage many voters.

Those forced to cast these “provisional” ballots might never see those votes counted.

The legislation also imposes heavy restrictions on third-party registration groups along with delivering broad authority to the state attorney general to initiate action against them without any evidence of any wrongdoing.

Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich ( D-Weston ) stated:

This bill makes it harder to register voters, harder to cast a ballot and harder still to have a ballot counted,” said state . “It’s stacking the Republican deck one year out from a presidential election by attempting to silence the voices of dissent.

Both HB 1355 and SB 2086 – have already has passed the full House and Senate.