REPORT: Rick Scott’s Anti-Voter Effort Grinds Democratic Registration To A Halt

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/28/755631/rick-scott-anti-voter-registration-halt/

REPORT: Rick Scott’s Anti-Voter Effort Grinds Democratic Registration To A Halt

By Josh Israel on Aug 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm


Last July, a Florida voter suppression law — enacted by the state legislature’s Republican majority and signed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) — went into effect, putting major new restrictions on groups who work to register new voters. HB 1355 imposed harsh new restrictions on third-party voter registration groups, requiring them to turn in completed registration forms 48 hours — to the minute — after completion, or face fines. Though the bill was put on hold in late May by a federal judge, a new report shows the damage was done: Democratic voter registration in Florida ground to a virtual standstill.

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Macnab notes that the rule may have disproportionately hurt Democratic registration as groups often target areas that lean Democratic — “college campuses, senior centers and low-income communities.”

Combined with the Scott administration’s failed attempts attempts to reduce the number of hours for early voting and to purge citizens from the voter rolls, a clear pattern emerges.

Even with court intervention to stop apparently illegal voter suppression efforts like HB 1355, reports like this expose the “irreparable harm” already done to American democracy.

[porphyrian]

1. Rick Scott is a giant piece of shit.

As any Florida state government employee what they think about him. Really, go ask.

[onethatcares]

2. hell, if you ask most people

they won't admit to it, it's like total voter amnesia.