Fla. federal court throws out state's ballot order law that lists candidates of governor's party 1st

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Dave Weigel Retweeted

BREAKING: In major court victory ahead of 2020, Florida federal court throws out state's ballot order law that lists candidates of the governor's party first on every ballot for every office. Finds that it gave GOP candidates a 5% advantage. @AndrewGillum lost in 2018 by .4%

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1. Marc Elias sued on this and won a major victory

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Link to tweet

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2. All I can find on this is in Twitter.

Miami Herald, Tallahassee Democrat: nada.

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3. From Prof Hasen

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108098

In Extensive Opinion, Federal District Court Holds Unconstitutional Florida Rule Dictating Ballot Order of Candidates Based on Winner of Governor’s Race
Posted on November 15, 2019 9:04 am by Rick Hasen
Based on social science of the “primacy effect” giving candidates listed first on the ballot a benefit, a federal district court has struck down Florida’s law dictating ballot order of candidates based on the winner of the last governor’s race as unconstitutional.

There is a link to the 74 page opinion in this case

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4. Do you feel like putting that in LBN? NT

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5. The Tallahassee Democrat gets all their state government news from the wire services

They can send reporters to every FSU or FAMU sporting event, but can't be bothered to send a reporter to the state capitol building. It's been that way since I first moved to Tallahassee in 1972. That is why I will not subscribe to that fish wrapper.