Gray Rohrer
An elections bill that hikes fines on third-party voter registration groups, shortens the window to return mail ballots and ensures Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t need to resign to run for President passed the House and is on its way to DeSantis’ desk.
Democrats slammed the measure as an attempt to suppress their voters.
The bill (SB 7050) bans non-citizens and ex-felons working for voter registration groups from handling applications and imposes a $50,000 fine for each infraction. Voters would also have two fewer days to return mail ballots.
“(This bill is) actually a clear attack on our democracy,” said Rep. Angie Nixon, a Jacksonville Democrat. “It’s designed to keep communities down and apathetic and hopeless.”
The bill passed 76-34 along party lines. Republicans said they only wanted to ensure election integrity.
Rep. Lawrence McClure, a Dover Republican who sponsored the bill, said non-citizens can still advocate and encourage people to register to vote, but they can’t touch sensitive voter information.
“It’s only at the moment that they’re going to collect and handle that information that we want you to be a U.S. citizen,” McClure said.
Florida’s resign-to-run law requires an elected official to submit, at the time they qualify to run for another office, an irrevocable resignation effective the date his or her new elected position would start. Although Republicans said it doesn’t apply to candidates for President or Vice President, they “clarified” the law anyway.
“I personally believe this is just a clarification in law,” said Rep. Ralph Massullo, a Lecanto Republican. “It is an individual office that is unique to any office that we have. It is the chief executive of our country.”
The move comes as DeSantis is widely assumed to be gearing up to run for the GOP nomination for President. He has yet to officially announce a run, but went on a book tour earlier this year and has a super PAC named Never Back Down that has begun running ads on his behalf.
6 comments
Billy the Bamboozler
April 28, 2023 at 8:19 pm
Run all you want to..2024 belongs to the Dems. You blew your load on Florida. On a national level, people are horrified at what they see in Florida. Only thinking about conservatives is a disasterous miscalculation. That might work in Florida but not elsewhere. Plus, you’ve drawn attention to yourself from Orange Hitler. The GOP created that monster and that is why the GOP will lose again. Better get control of your party and voters. Already too late for 2024.
Earl Pitts American
April 28, 2023 at 9:19 pm
Good evening America,
A lot of former lefties have been asking me, Earl Pitts American, how can I vote for a conservative and still not loose my dumb @55 leftist friends?
Here’s what y’all need to know:
If you vote Biden that means Kamalla will be POTUS. Some of the lesser intelegent dook 4 brains lefties have inquired about if the same “Biden’s handlers will just become Kamalla’s handlers”.
I, Earl Pitts American, told them no that wont happen because Kamalla has terminal dook 4 brains (no medical cure) and she will try to run the country on her own. That as 93% of all dook 4 brains leftists know would destroy our nation.
So to my many former dook 4 brains leftist friends who have joined my, Earl Pitts American, fan club to attempt to rehabilate themselves Welcome!!!
Yes I will advise you how to vote:
i, Earl Pitts American, advise all my recovering dook 4 brains leftist fan club members to quietly cross over in the election and vote Republican. As far as your non-Earl Pitts American fan club member old dook 4 brains friends will know – you voted for Biden. And wives dont tell your husbands and husbands dont tell your wives. As you all may know your spouse may still have dook 4 brains.
So after Desantis is elected y’all should all pretend you voted Biden. When you are lying to your dook 4 brains friends be sure to put that dumb @55 leftist look on your face and say “I dont know I voted Biden”.
So there you are former leftists:
That is how you can save the country and still keep your hatefull vengfull dumb@55 dook 4 brains friends.
You are welcome America,
Earl Pitts American
Earl Pitts American
April 28, 2023 at 10:16 pm
Good evening America,
And so it begins:
Just like that America’s political infatuation with the young handsome one who reminds them of the origional RFK back in the 1960’s. This will be the end of a Democratic majority in the Federal Govornment for the next 16 years.
Thank you America,
Earl Pitts American
Elliott Offen
April 29, 2023 at 9:37 am
They are clearing out all the filth as we speak.. conservative filth that is..obstructionists and saboteurs of government. Trump will lose in 2024 so you’ve got no hope of that any time soon. Seek medication for your delusions and intellectual disabilities.
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Dont Say FLA
April 29, 2023 at 9:45 am
Florida GOP loves law and order until the law and order applies to themselves and then they change the law and order more champagne. There’s one and only one reason they’re changing this law for Ron’s Run: Everybody knows he’s gonna lose badly and still be Florida’s Whiner in Chief.
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