TALAHASEY, Florida (AP) – A federal judge overturned part of Florida’s electoral law last year and said in a decision Thursday that the Republican -led government is using sophisticated tactics to suppress black voters.
The law tightened the rules on ballots, ballot boxes and other popular voting methods, changes that made the situation difficult for black voters, who generally had a greater socio-economic disadvantage than white voters. , U.S. district judge Marc U wrote.
“Over the past 20 years, most Florida legislatures have attacked the voting rights of their black voters,” Walker added.
The Florida -led Republican legislature has joined electoral reforms in several other states after former Republican President Donald Trump’s baseless statement that it stole the 2020 election. Democrats have called these reforms a partisan attempt to protect voters from polls.
Much of the debate has focused on ballot papers and how they are collected and returned. The new law also limits whether people can use the box to submit their ballot.
The office of Republican Governor Ron Desantis, which made the bill a priority, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
DeSantis previously said that while he expects the Tallahassee Federal Court to remove certain aspects of his legislative agenda, he is confident they will be upheld on appeal. The case was referred to the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, which is considered very conservative.
Source: Huffpost
