Hours before announcing his 2024 campaign for the presidency on Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law allowing him to continue to serve as governor while he pursues the GOP presidential nomination. While that was the headline, the new law contains a series of provisions making it harder to vote in the state, including new restrictions on mail-in ballots, efforts to make it easier to purge the voting rolls, and limitations on third-party voter registration groups that could gut community registration drives. As a result, DeSantis is facing three new federal lawsuits from organizations including the NAACP, League of Women Voters, and the Hispanic Federation, which argue that the new restrictions violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, including the right to free speech and association, and fundamental protections of the right to vote. Voting rights groups say the new rules for grassroots voter registration groups are particularly burdensome.
Ron Desantis Faces Three New Lawsuits After Signing New Voter Suppression Bill
Ari Berman, Mother Jones
Sat, 05/27/2023 - 11:15am
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