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mia

(8,360 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:02 AM Mar 2020

Disenfranchised by DeSantis.

Florida voters have been denied their rights. I am one of the many elderly who will opt to stay home today. It's too late to request a mail-in ballot.

Citing coronavirus, activists sue to extend vote-by-mail deadline in presidential primary

A group of civil rights organizations is suing Florida over its decision to not extend vote-by-mail for Tuesday’s presidential primary elections amid the rising number of cases of novel coronavirus in the state....

Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Ohio have postponed their presidential primary elections to avoid the possible spread of the virus.

When it was announced that other states were postponing primary elections, DeSantis said Florida would not be taking similar actions.

“They voted during the Civil War,” DeSantis told reporters. “We’re going to vote.”


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article241255291.html
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Disenfranchised by DeSantis. (Original Post) mia Mar 2020 OP
Sorry, but I have to agree with DeSantis csziggy Mar 2020 #1

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
1. Sorry, but I have to agree with DeSantis
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:52 AM
Mar 2020

You had two weeks to vote early. When my husband and I went last week for early voting, there were seven or eight poll workers and we were the only voters in the place.

In addition, this crisis has been developing for well over a month. You could have requested an absentee ballot at any point prior to this week, gotten it and sent it back in plenty of time.

I am sorry you did not plan ahead.

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