Mini-Trump - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for laws to make it harder to vote by mail in Florida.

[RKP5637]

(The crap never ends!!! Worst governor in the US!!!)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/florida-gov-ron-desantis-calls-restrictive-new-voting-laws-n1258405

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, wants to make it harder to vote by mail after a record number of the state's residents utilized the voting method during last year's election.

In a speech on Friday, DeSantis said Florida had “the most transparent and efficient election anywhere in the country” last year, while advocating for more restrictions he said were necessary to "stay ahead of the curve" and improve confidence in the system.

Former President Donald Trump spent months denigrating the election system, and lying about who won the 2020 race. He particularly attacked mail voting as fraudulent.

Many states expanded their mail voting systems amid a pandemic that made congregating at the polls a health risk. And while Trump’s lies have been widely disproven, state Republicans across the country are nonetheless introducing and advancing new voting restrictions, which were often target issues raised by the president.

Republicans in 33 states introduce 165 bills to restrict voting access
Feb. 17, 2021

DeSantis proposed a spate of new election laws on Friday, calling for the state to limit the use of ballot drop boxes (the governor said ballots should be mailed or dropped off at election offices), as well as requiring voters to request mail ballots more frequently than they already do, which is roughly every two years. He also called for prohibiting ballot collection.

“We did it right in 2020, we obviously gotta look and make sure we’re doing it better,” he said. Trump beat Joe Biden in Florida by nearly 400,000 more votes while the state saw more than 9 million mail-in and in-person ballots returned — up 41 percent from the 2016 election.

He called for real-time reporting of voter turnout data, as well as codifying that unsolicited ballots won't be mailed to voters in Florida — something he acknowledged the state already doesn't do.

DeSantis said he would ask lawmakers to take up his proposals this year. Already, Republican lawmakers in Florida have introduced a bill requiring voters to request mail ballots each year.

“They seem to be addressing a problem that isn’t there,” said Eliza Sweren-Becker, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. “We don’t have a voter fraud problem, it’s phenomenally scarce.”

[dutch777]

1. People in GA, PA, FL and wherever else this is happening need to head to the streets

Where the Repubs through their endless gerrymandering have over representation in their state legislatures, without serious push back, they will be able to make Dems getting a fair shot in elections increasingly difficult. I know the House plans to put forth an improved voting rights bill but I am unsure of how much they can decree limits to how the states set up their election process.

[RKP5637]

3. We really need a consistent voting process across the US. Likely will never see that happen. n/t

[dutch777]

5. Sadly, you may be right. Short of some "Good Governance" movement nationally that

while not legislating at the Federal level, but rather creating a framework of "best election practices that enfranchise all" that can be taken around state by state and pushed through state legislatures by the state's citizenry, I doubt we will get there too.

[notinkansas]

2. While there is no voter fraud,

repubs are doing everything they can to continue to commit election fraud.

Voting rights need to become a Biden priority.

[RKP5637]

4. The greatest fraud in the US is the GOP! n/t