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Blue_true

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3. I live in Florida, I know a bit about how to beat voter suppression.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 01:21 PM
Jan 2018

Despite the extensive efforts of republicans, Florida is heading blue. The Democratic Presidential candidate has won two of the last three elections and Trump barely won the state two Novembers ago. My area of the state is growing and has moved from blood red to red-purple. The Orlando-Tampa area moved from red to solid blue. All this happened with republicans working their asses off to suppress. A person can register to vote at the Registry of Motor Vehicle branches, or at library branches. A valid Florida Driver's license is what is needed and if a person does not have that, a certified birth certificate from their birth state or a valid or just expired US Passport. Did republicans made registering easy, NO, they tried as hard as possible to prevent some people from voting. But they are failing because people worked to overcome their violations of voter rights.

Yes, we have Rick Scott, but he lied to win the first time and ran with a Black woman as his second. The legislature is republican led only because Cubans is South Florida vote in republicans from down in that part of the state (but that is changing as young Cubans are voting blue).

It is easy to say that someone is preventing you from doing something. It is far more meaningful and satisfying to defeat their efforts to hold you back.

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