Posted on 04/06/2021 9:12:33 AM PDT by Jacquerie
State Rep. Evan Jenne, co-chair of the House Democratic Caucus said comparable action could hit Florida if the state Legislature adopts Republican-sponsored reforms moving in the House and the Senate to restrict access to mail-in ballots, outlaw distribution of water to voters standing in line, and limit or eliminate use of ballot drop boxes.
“It looks very similar to what took place in Georgia,” Jenne said. “Major League Baseball made a huge decision moving their All Star Game out of Georgia. … I do think there would be some ramifications.”
Critics including the League of Women Voters of Florida say the election changes proposed in Florida are obstructionist and unnecessary. Florida’s supervisors of elections have expressed their opposition, as have Florida chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union, All Voting Is Local and Black Voters Matter.
“The election ‘reform’ bill that is being touted right now … is a very, very bad bill,” Jenne said, referring to reforms proposed by Rep. Blaise Ingoglia, a Republican from Hernando County, and the House Committee on Public Integrity and Elections. Similar voting restrictions are being sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Dennis Baxley, a Republican representing parts of Sumter, Lake and Marion counties. The sponsors say their restrictions would make good laws better. Had the restrictions been proposed last year, corporate blowback could have cost Florida the Superbowl, Jenne speculated. He said Florida should be wary of attracting the kind of corporate condemnations aimed at Georgia’s new election laws – from giant brands such as Coca-Cola, Delta, Dell and Microsoft.
“In a state that is so dependent upon tourism as an industry, it seems like probably the wrong fight to get into, especially when it’s just not necessary here in Florida,” Jenne said, citing widespread consensus that Florida’s 2020 elections ran exceptionally well.
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The most ironic part of this is that Colorado already has similar voting laws to Georgia’s new laws.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-voting-rules-georgia-major-league-baseball-all-star-game
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Part of the coordinated attack by Deep State to keep the discussion on Voter ID to the exclusion of all other issues.
Because, even if all votes cast are legal votes, elections can still be stolen.
Native Floridians are cheering at this prospect.
RE: House Dem says ‘very bad’ voting bills could hurt FL tourism, too
Georgia’s voting bill was NOT ‘very bad’, in fact it was mostly good and common sense. It’s Democrats who want to WEAKEN election security and call that ‘very good’.
Citing a sports exhibition game being pulled out of another state to try and stop a good law you oppose from passing in yours is weak. I hope no one in the Florida legislature would fall for such an argument.
Does this mean the Amish won’t descend on Miami for Spring Break?
Ugh. Cost the super bowl?
The real crypto marxist muslim terrorism against MLB notwithstanding. Who would be saddened by the exit of this prostitute of schizophrenia in Floridian or Georgian society?
Who even cares about MLB All Stars?
I don’t.
The MLB is going to suffer far more than Georgia.
Any time that a democRAT is “elected” to any office, it’s ALWAYS very bad for freedom loving Americans.
FACT.
How is this not extortion?
It’s great that better election laws are being passed; however, unless and until they are strictly enforced it’s all for naught. Numerous laws were broken/ignored in the battleground states and yet we see little if any impetus on investigation and prosecution.
Florida with its strong MAGA Republican Governor DeSantis is attracting more and more people to permanently move to Florida.
Florida’s existing election rules and regulations resulted in a 2020 election with very few issues.
The proposed new election laws augment existing laws and curtail the practices by leftist organizations like Facebook who caused problems in 2020.
The corrupt left thinks they are Kindergarten teachers telling us all Woke Fairy Tales, and that we will listen. These Woke Jokers have little in the way of backbone, and so are counting on opposition against their perversion of elections in America to melt away like the morning dew. Well, perhaps something else is happening?
Georgia, Texas, and now Florida seem to have gotten their boots on. Every state that cares about the future of this country must pass similar laws, resisting the slide into tyranny. Be the Brick Wall these idiots hit. Hold back the sea of filth they wish to inundate us with. This is the time and this is the hill, except this time we win!
Florida has beaches. Can’t hurt that.
I’m taking my kid to Florida this summer. Too bad Democrats, she wants to go to the beach.
The reason the democrats are fighting so hard against the Georgia Law is that they are afraid that it could become a templet for laws in other states, and that would eliminate their ability to cheat in future elections. That is the total reason!
So do the power hungry democrat megalomaniacs now think they can control where people go? Tell it to all of those college brats on spring break. This could be the end of cancel culture.
Says Evan Jenne, whose Democrat kingpin father Ken went to prison for corruption.
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