DeSantis' signature on voting bill draws lawsuit from League of Women Voters of FL
Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation making it much more burdensome for voter-registration groups to sign up new voters, prompting an immediate constitutional challenge from the League of Women Voters of Florida.
The new law, SB 7050, was among 20 items of legislation that the governor signed before announcing his presidential candidacy on Wednesday. He had basically nothing to say about the elections bill, merely noting in a message to legislative leaders that he had attached his signature to that and the other bills.
The League of Women Voters of Florida Inc. and League of Women Voters of Florida Education Fund filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in Tallahassee alleging that, in violation of the First and Fourteenth amendments, the law imposes unacceptable burdens on one of the groups’ core functions: encouraging participation in politics by signing up new voters. They ask the court to block the law’s enforcement.
“This is a lawsuit challenging burdensome, unnecessary, and irrational restrictions on constitutionally protected voter registration speech and activity of third-party voter registration organizations (‘3PVROs’) in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment,” the 49-page complaint asserts.
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