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Posted on 12/21/2021 12:12:37 PM PST by Jacquerie
TALLAHASSEE — A legal showdown over a controversial state elections law is set to take place next month, after a federal judge rejected efforts to short-circuit a trial in constitutional challenges by voting-rights groups.
The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs allege that the changes are unconstitutional, in part because the “brunt of the harm” will be borne by Black voters, Hispanic voters, elderly voters and voters with disabilities. The lawsuits also allege parts of the law violate plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights.
GOP lawmakers, however, have contended the law was needed for election security. The state argued in a motion for summary judgment that it “was not enacted in a vacuum.”
Legislators crafted the sweeping elections measure “to improve election administration and proactively address issues of voter security and confidence,” the state’s lawyers wrote.
Walker, who consolidated four challenges in a trial scheduled to start Jan. 31, said the plaintiffs “have come forward with evidence suggesting that the challenged provisions impose at least some burdens on Florida’s electorate.”
Four parts of the law remain under scrutiny, including a section that sets a new restriction on the availability and use of drop boxes where people can drop off vote-by-mail ballots. Under the law, supervisors of elections must have the boxes staffed at all times and can only use the boxes during early voting hours and at early voting sites. Supervisors who violate the requirement face $25,000 fines.
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<>evidence suggesting that the challenged provisions impose at least some burdens on Florida’s electorate<>
Like getting out of bed and going to the polling place?
I am reminded of the time a few years back, when the names of dead people were taken off the voter rolls of Florida, and the Democrats objected.
And, they will eventually realize that they hate the crooked tyranny they enabled.
Anything that stops making elections fraud friendly will be opposed by the RATs. What else could one expect from a bunch of Communists?
This will be a win at the District Court level and her nuked at the appellate level. The Supreme Court will decline review.
Dear Judge: please elicit some specifics from the plaintives and please elicit some lame examples while you're at it. Thanks.
P.S. This issue is lame with a jelly-legged limp and cannot possibly stand.
Are you sure that came out the way you wanted?
It’s a funny thing . . . . challenges to the 2020 election were thrown off as “not ripe’ or “no standing” yet these challengers are able to be heard without an injured party and without the identity of a presumed harmed individual. Definitely a two-tiered justice system.
Yes. Fraud friendly is the Democrat way.
bump
Great point!
Like the ACLU, I am sure that “The League of Women Voters (of Florida)” was, at some distant past, less than the blatant LEFT organization that it is now. I have to agree with Dennis Prager; “Whatever the LEFT touches, it corrupts!”
It is a damn shame that in a modern country like this black people have no idea how to get an ID or use a computer.
/sarcasm
While I can’t name names, I’m positive that some prominent blacks have publicly slammed that racist assumption.
Perhaps FL can recruit one or more to testify.
Hmmm, another question: Why don’t these challenges go before juries?
Why can’t you name them?
Got it. I misread it at first.
I don’t recall their names.
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