Anger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane

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Governor Ron DeSantis has made voting easier in certain Florida counties battered by Hurricane Ian – but only Republican-leaning ones.

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Anger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane
Executive order makes voting easier in Florida’s Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties but not in Democratic Orange county
11:38 AM · Oct 14, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/14/ron-desantis-florida-hurricane-ian-voting-rules

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Governor 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.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Charlie Crist to go on offense about this.

DeSatan....what a fucking scumbag!

[TheBlackAdder]

21. Sounds like unequal protection under the law or something.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Time to sue. Now.

If the Bush v. Gore lawsuit taught us anything, it is that the Florida Supreme Court does not like arbitrary handling of voting ballots.

[exboyfil]

3. And don't sit on your rights

The Trump whining came after the election. Challenge every biased change.

[ShazzieB]

23. +1

"Lawsuit time" was the first thing that went through my mind. I definitely smell a class action lawsuit on behalf of the voters of Orange County.

I can see the lawyers down there sharpening their knives and licking their chops as I type this. I hope they get him good!

[NullTuples]

25. Should reach the Florida supreme or circuit courts by mid-December...

I have no faith in that state's legal system. Or rather, I trust that it is exceedingly biased and unafraid to be blatant about it.

[C_U_L8R]

4. What a dipshit

Why is he even in government if he cannot even govern?

[mountain grammy]

32. He's there to rule, not govern

[ProudMNDemocrat]

33. Another Mousollini wanna-be.

Add DICKtator to DeSantis's list of To-Do.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Lock him up.

NAZI.

[EnergizedLib]

6. How revolting

He’s not a man of the people or somebody who represents everyone.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. He has declared civil war against non repubs. As far as I am concerned.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Jinx! (nt)

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Do patriots need to drive to Florida to help people vote?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. When we're not driving rape victims across state lines for health care, we maybe should (nt)

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. If gop takes House, Medicare and SS will be gone in a few years, at which point I will

have nothing to lose....

[Hugh_Lebowski]

16. Lemme know when we're rollin ER (nt)

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. Getting pretty obvious these fuckers really DO want Civil War II in the USA (nt)

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. They do...if it were up to me this would be considered civil war with what he just did.

If this is NOT resolved by election day then the election CANT be legitimate.

[Wednesdays]

14. K&R.

[malaise]

15. Who didn't see this coming?

DeathSentence is scum on steroids

[kimbutgar]

17. Why haven't they taken this to court?

[HUAJIAO]

19. Because too many of us don't do fighting. We're too nice.

[OilemFirchen]

22. Because it's only been a day?

Please stop the nonsense.

[kimbutgar]

26. Sadly you are true we are just not ruthless enough like the maga rebukes

[ShazzieB]

24. Who says they aren't getting ready to?

[KPN]

18. First thought when looking at photo:

His face needs punched — hard!

[kimbutgar]

27. +1 he certainly has a punchable face or one you'd want to spit in!

[hadEnuf]

20. He's trying to steal the election.

Sue the shit out of him.

Fucking Nazi.

[TeamProg]

30. +1

[dchill]

31. He's not TRYING. He's DOING!

[sop]

28. The folks in Liberty City, Overtown and Opa Locka will still have to stand in line for hours to cast

their votes, with no one to even give them a bottle of water and Governor Ron's "election police" breathing down their necks.

[TeamProg]

29. STOP the relief FUNDING until equal voting access is guaranteed! n/t

[IronLionZion]

34. He killed many of his voters with COVID

and now wants to steal the election with selective voter suppression.

[sop]

35. DeSantis sent the first doses of the Covid vaccine to his wealthy donors at the Ocean Reef Club.

From the Washington Post: "Last week, former Illinois governor Bruce Rauner (R) was inspired to donate a quarter-million dollars to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war chest."

"The hefty donation came about a month after Rauner’s ultrawealthy and exclusive community on the northern tip of Key Largo received enough coronavirus vaccine doses for 1,200 residents over the age of 65, according to a Miami Herald report on Wednesday evening."

"That vaccine access — at a time when many other elderly Floridians struggled to find doses — combined with donations to DeSantis by Rauner and more than a dozen other residents in the Ocean Reef Club have raised new concerns among critics of the Republican governor’s handling of the pandemic."

“'This is wrong on so many levels,' state Sen. Annette Taddeo, a Democrat who represents part of Miami-Dade County, said in a tweet Wednesday night. 'Floridians life saving vaccines should NOT depend on a rich zip code or how big your political contribution is!!!'l

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/04/florida-keys-desantis-vaccine-donation/

[IronLionZion]

36. He's such a POS

Most of his voters are not "ultrawealthy and exclusive". Oh well. Maybe his less lucky voters won't be around to vote for him this time.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. The GOP can't win any other way

[Samrob]

38. I raised this issue days ago. Especially about verification of voters and polling areas.

Lots of questions unanswered. How have or have people displaced by the hurricane get notified of changes in polling places, times drop boxes etc.?