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Related: About this forumAnger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anger-desantis-eases-voting-rules-164414797.htmlGovernor Ron DeSantis has made voting easier in certain Florida counties battered by Hurricane Ian but only Republican-leaning ones.
DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eases voting rules for about 1 million voters in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, all areas that Hurricane Ian hit hard and that all reliably vote Republican.
Meanwhile, Orange county, a Democratic-leaning area which experienced historic flooding from the storm, received no voting exceptions, reported the Washington Post.
The accommodations include extended early voting days and the ability for voters to send mail-in ballots from addresses not listed in voting records.
Voting rights groups had previously asked the governor to extend the statewide voting registration deadline, which ended on Tuesday, and to add more early voting days, as well as implement other accommodations.
DeSantis complied but only for the three Republican counties.
DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eases voting rules for about 1 million voters in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, all areas that Hurricane Ian hit hard and that all reliably vote Republican.
Meanwhile, Orange county, a Democratic-leaning area which experienced historic flooding from the storm, received no voting exceptions, reported the Washington Post.
The accommodations include extended early voting days and the ability for voters to send mail-in ballots from addresses not listed in voting records.
Voting rights groups had previously asked the governor to extend the statewide voting registration deadline, which ended on Tuesday, and to add more early voting days, as well as implement other accommodations.
DeSantis complied but only for the three Republican counties.
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Anger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Oct 2022
OP
Getting pretty obvious these fuckers really DO want Civil War II in the USA (nt)
Hugh_Lebowski
Oct 2022
#1
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Getting pretty obvious these fuckers really DO want Civil War II in the USA (nt)
NCDem47
(2,587 posts)2. Any DUer with two brain cells
Could have called this one.
REEKS of favoritism to a ruby red area. Rs NEED those Charlotte, Lee and Sarasota votes!
intheozone
(1,116 posts)3. What happened to the rule saying
all voters in a state must be treated equally for voting purposes. Wasn't that an argument for the decision in Bush v Gore?
DBoon
(23,058 posts)4. and didn't DeSantis target Covid vaccine to areas with Republican donors?