An Editorial Of An Editorial.

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This is what Floridians think of DeSantis, this is what the Miami Herald has to say in an editorial.

Lessons from Florida: Thought Trump’s Big Lie was a problem? DeSantis’ is even scarier | Opinion
BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD

SEPTEMBER 06, 2023

When Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial elections law in 2021, he blocked all media from covering a signing ceremony, except Fox News, which exalted him during the live segment. DeSantis’ move was emblematic of how Florida’s governor has treated voting access. His approach is one-sided, meant to appease the conservative voters he’s courting in the 2024 presidential primary — too many who still believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. His approach isn’t to make it easier for voters to cast ballots, especially if they are voters of color, poor and elderly. Much to the contrary.

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When Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial elections law in 2021, he blocked all media from covering a signing ceremony, except Fox News, which exalted him during the live segment. DeSantis’ move was emblematic of how Florida’s governor has treated voting access. His approach is one-sided, meant to appease the conservative voters he’s courting in the 2024 presidential primary — too many who still believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. His approach isn’t to make it easier for voters to cast ballots, especially if they are voters of color, poor and elderly. Much to the contrary.

You think Trump was heavy handed and packed the courts just wait what a DeSantis presidency would do!

A President DeSantis would appoint judges and, potentially, Supreme Court justices, allowing him to take cement his vision even further through the judicial system. Beyond what a president can do via official actions, his leadership and words also matter. A president who speaks about voting-rights protections as if they were “woke” special privileges for minorities can push his party to pass restrictive state voting laws, as Trump did after 2020.

We would turned a corner that has no return.

They even admitted in court that they are stacking the deck.

Lawyers defending Florida against a lawsuit recently admitted in court that the congressional map DeSantis forced lawmakers to pass violated state safeguards against diminishing Black voting power. The map did away with a majority-Black district in North Florida. The state argues that such protections violate the U.S. Constitution. If that argument is successful, the case could be used to overturn voting protections at a national level, the Herald reported.

A federal judge on Saturday rebuffed the governor’s legal argument and struck down that North Florida district. 

The Florida Supreme Court, where DeSantis appointees hold a majority, is expected to decide the case by the end of the year.

Kind of stacking the deck against the minorities, Jim Crow 2.0.

The HuffPost wrote this about the article,

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) poses a threat to voting rights all over the country, the Miami Herald’s editorial board wrote in a column Wednesday.

The newspaper published the editorial as part of a series, “Lessons from Florida,” describing “what it is like to live under his influence” and spreading the word beyond state lines amid the Republican’s bid for the White House.

“Voters should look at what he’s done in Florida to understand how a potential DeSantis presidency could approach voter access,” the board wrote.

“His approach isn’t to make it easier for voters to cast ballots, especially if they are voters of color, poor and elderly,” it said. “Much to the contrary.”

DeSantis has signed multiple elections bills in recent years that have made it harder for people to vote. The legislation has been criticized by advocacy groups and Democrats as an attempt to suppress voting, particularly by minorities.

Disenfranchise voters that is their goal, you can’t trust the voters to vote the right way.

The Herald goes on to write…

DeSantis signed another law this year increasing fines for third-party voter registration groups that don’t turn in voter forms in time while also giving them less time to do so. He banned non-citizens — even people in the country legally, such as green-card holders — from registering people to vote. Ironically, immigrants with green cards are allowed under federal law to donate money to political campaigns.

SB 7050 looks like a laser-focused attempt to undermine nonprofit organizations, such as the League of Women Voters or the NAACP, that often register voters in poor and immigrant communities. The law also prohibited those groups from keeping any voter information, a provision U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said was overly vague when he temporarily blocked portions of the law in July.

Anything to keep voters from voting!

When it comes to encouraging citizens to participate in our democracy, DeSantis’ “Florida Blueprint” would make it harder, not easier.

DeSantis is trying to out Trump, Trump.

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