In rebuke of Gov. Rick Scott, judge grants voter registration extension
Source: Tampa Bay Times
TALLAHASSEE A judge on Monday extended Florida's voter registration deadline by one more day, through Wednesday, because of Hurricane Matthew, calling it "irrational" for the state to reject the idea.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker granted the Florida Democratic Party's request for a temporary restraining order, which included a rebuke of Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, who had refused to extend the deadline past its scheduled expiration of 5 p.m. Tuesday.
"Quite simply, it is wholly irrational in this instance for Florida to refuse to extend the voter registration deadline when the state already allows the governor to suspend or move the election date due to an unforeseen emergency," Walker wrote in a 16-page order. "If aspiring eligible Florida voters are barred from registering to vote, then those voters are stripped of one of our most precious freedoms."
The Democrats' lawsuit also asserted that the suspension of mail delivery at the height of the storm could result in some voter registration forms not reaching election offices by Tuesday, disenfranchising more Florida residents.
Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/voter-registration-deadline-is-tuesday-unless-democrats-get-extension-/2297387
jpak
(41,758 posts)I was just coming here to say that myself.
forest444
(5,902 posts)All in favor?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Name on the ballot would need to be changed, I bet Scott would have allowed this to happen without a problem.
mcar
(42,334 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Or that we act in accord with that awareness.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)It's not really a question. I know it's just more voter suppression...but wtf can they be thinking. It's so damned obvious. What an ass hole. People of Florida, wake the fuck up!
BumRushDaShow
(129,062 posts)Per the article, the judge is an Obama appointee!
Cha
(297,275 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)royable
(1,264 posts)verbatim quote of Rick Scott on October 7:
"I'm not going to extend it. If you, if you... whether it's the registration date, you hadn't, everybody has had a lot of time to register, so, uh... On top of that, y'know, we've got lots of opportunities to vote, uh, early voting, abs'ee voting, and election day, so I don't intend to make any changes."
In my best Nelson voice: "HA HA!"
csziggy
(34,136 posts)So Wednesday October 12 will be the last day of voter registration in Florida.
As seen on local news just now:
By WCTV Eyewitness News; Associated Press |
Posted: Mon 6:09 PM, Oct 10, 2016 |
Updated: Mon 6:20 PM, Oct 10, 2016
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge has granted a Democratic request to extend the voter registration deadline in Florida due to Hurricane Matthew.
The Florida Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit Sunday against Gov. Rick Scott and the state's top election officials to extend the voter registration deadline, which had been set for Tuesday, October 11. The lawsuit was filed after Governor Scott publicly turned down a request from Democrats to extend the deadline.
The judge's order extends the voter registration deadline to Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 5 p.m.
A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m. to determine if the deadline will be extended further.
To read the order, click here.
http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Democrats-Florida-should-extend-voter-registration-deadline-396513371.html
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Fuck you, Ricky. Someone in Florida is actually sane, and it ain't you.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Rebuked!
Owl
(3,642 posts)Ligyron
(7,633 posts)How the hell he avoided that and then managed to get himself elected Gov, not once, but TWICE is beyond me.
When Romney lost that last election, the "Teaparty Patriots" in Ocala and the Villages cried their little hearts out in stunned disbelief while I laughed my ass off in Gainesville, an island of sanity in the Red Sea. This was about the same time the "Citizen's Grand Jury" had billboards up saying they had indited Barrack Obama for "treason" and yet Obama won all Florida's considerable Electoral votes.
Something didn't add up with the demographics that's for sure. Not into CT myself but ironically, Florida uses machine voting with no paper trail now ever since Gore almost won that one election. No more of them pesky re-counts 'cause that one was too close for the Repugs.
Lucky for brother Bush, our impartial SCOTUS stopped it just in time.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)<snip>
"Gov. Rick Scotts push for millions of dollars to recruit businesses to Florida is taking a beating on the campaign trail.
But its not just Democrats slamming the Republican governors signature policy issue. In debates and forums, Republicans are making it abundantly clear Scott will have trouble getting the $85 million he wants for Enterprise Florida to recruit more companies to move to Florida."
<snip>
"Scotts pitch for incentive money has already received a big thumbs down from incoming Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land OLakes.
There will not be any corporate welfare in the House budget, Corcoran said after Scott initially requested the $85 million for Enterprise Florida."
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/republicans-campaigning-against-gov-rick-scotts-incentive-program/2297311
G'ville is great town. I went to school there eons ago. LOL
William769
(55,147 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)for not repeating the phrase 'radical Islamic terrorism', then what do we get for
denying 'climate change' and making it illegal to mention in government?
I'm sure Scott has his six covered.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Minnesota is in the running for the highest voter turnout of all the states.
People can show up on election day, register, and vote. No voter ID laws. A person can have another registered voter vouch for them and that is adequate. Anyone can vote by absentee ballot. It is a blue state.
May this high standard of voting be in all states.
Massacure
(7,523 posts)Every registered voter gets a ballot mailed to their address two or three weeks before the election and the voter just needs to mail it back.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)he might be raking in a lot of money from moneyed interests.
But really, money should not purchase morality, or lead us to harm the helpless.
The hell with Rick Scott!
Cha
(297,275 posts)thanks alp