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Democrat-backed challenge to Florida’s elections integrity law wins trial date from Obama-appointed judge
The Capitolist ^ | December 21st 2021 | Dara Kam

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
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Much more at the link. It is a worthwhile read.
1 posted on 12/21/2021 12:12:37 PM PST by Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie

<>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?


2 posted on 12/21/2021 12:15:57 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

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.


3 posted on 12/21/2021 12:16:33 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Jacquerie
Democrats/Marxists/progressives just HATE free and fair elections.

And, they will eventually realize that they hate the crooked tyranny they enabled.

4 posted on 12/21/2021 12:19:14 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: Jacquerie

Anything that stops making elections fraud friendly will be opposed by the RATs. What else could one expect from a bunch of Communists?


5 posted on 12/21/2021 12:20:54 PM PST by Nateman (Racism is Leftist Dog Whistle for 'Resistance to Communism'.)
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To: Jacquerie

This will be a win at the District Court level and her nuked at the appellate level. The Supreme Court will decline review.


6 posted on 12/21/2021 12:23:44 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Jacquerie
The challenges focus on several parts of the law that plaintiffs say will make it harder for Floridians to vote by mail.

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.

7 posted on 12/21/2021 12:26:45 PM PST by Migraine
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To: Nateman
Anything that stops making elections fraud friendly will be opposed by the RATs.

Are you sure that came out the way you wanted?

8 posted on 12/21/2021 12:29:17 PM PST by Migraine
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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.


9 posted on 12/21/2021 12:33:31 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Migraine

Yes. Fraud friendly is the Democrat way.


10 posted on 12/21/2021 12:33:54 PM PST by Nateman (Racism is Leftist Dog Whistle for 'Resistance to Communism'.)
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To: Jacquerie

bump


11 posted on 12/21/2021 12:34:06 PM PST by fwdude (My pronouns are "F*ck, Joe, Biden." Use them when addressing me or else. )
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Great point!


12 posted on 12/21/2021 12:36:01 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; ...
Enemy action ping.

Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

13 posted on 12/21/2021 12:46:15 PM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Jacquerie

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!”


14 posted on 12/21/2021 12:57:50 PM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: Jacquerie

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


15 posted on 12/21/2021 12:58:29 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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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.


16 posted on 12/21/2021 1:05:50 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Hmmm, another question: Why don’t these challenges go before juries?


17 posted on 12/21/2021 1:10:08 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Why can’t you name them?


18 posted on 12/21/2021 1:11:53 PM PST by sport
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To: Nateman

Got it. I misread it at first.


19 posted on 12/21/2021 1:16:40 PM PST by Migraine
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To: sport

I don’t recall their names.


20 posted on 12/21/2021 1:26:05 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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