https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/13/desantis-florida-hurricane-voting/ It is in counties hit hardest by the hurricane.
I can see setting up different drop box sites if the earlier selected sites where destroyed. Also, be able to send your vote by mail to a different address if your home was destroyed or made unliveable.
The right thing to do but should be in all impacted counties. Really should be all over the state. Voting should not be made harder.
yes, in solid red counties. In blue counties, he refused to expand early voting. I don't think people realize how much flooding resulted in central florida
Burying the lede. He expanded early voting in red counties. Orange asked for the same treatment and got rebuffed. And it looks like drop boxes aren't so dangerous when they're helping people in red counties.
That is a foolish statement. 1. Is Central Florida still flooded? Outside of a few debris piles is there still recovery going on? Maybe around the St Johns river but I know of no place else. 2. Where was all the objection to blue states changing mail in voting rules in 2020 due to covid? See any difference?
In my county I noticed mail in now need postage and there are no longer drop boxes at the post office, only in front of elections office. Solid Red county.
Are you joking here? I know your hardcore Red, but I cannot imagine you don’t appreciate the hypocrisy of DeSantis’ actions. As a reminder, he parroted the Trumpian incrimination of early voting and mail-in voting during a pandemic' and DeSantis would not expand access to voting in Florida in Counties not overtly red.
1. Recovery is still ongoing in Central Florida. 2. Nobody is objecting to DeSantis changing the rules. They're objecting to him changing the rules in a selective manner that just happens to benefit the Republican Party.
I would add an objection. I object to him changing the rules in a way that is completely legitimate but which has been labeled "fraudulent" by Republicans everywhere and is currently serving as one of the bases for a potentially radical Supreme Court decision allowing state legislatures to if they deem the result illegitimate, such illegitimacy resulting from measures exactly like these.
Well, I wouldn't characterize that as an objection to changing the rules. I'd characterize that as an objection to Republicans being dishonest hypocrites.
Except that it is worse than hypocrisy - they are literally terrorizing election workers, tried to throw an election and are cutting off voting rights and setting the legal stage to throw a future election and destroy democracy, largely on the pretense that no Governor can unilaterally change the way that votes are cast, and that letting voters cast votes like this, at least "urban" voters, creates mass "fraud".
No they aren't.....They are objecting to him being a Republican leader, that's it and you know it. I am shocked that a guy who seems to be a civil rights lawyer objects to a politician doing something for people in need right now. It is 3 coastal counties that were devistated by the storm vs an inland county where there aren't even road closures or power outages. Take off your blinders.
You have to dismiss the Left's feigned indignation over this move by our governor. The Left are as dirty as they come take every advantage for no reason, but to win at all cost. At least there is a real need for this move by DeSantis.
Yes, totally agree there is a need. Anyone arguing otherwise is disingenuous. What I have a problem with is the inconsistency of the position by DeSantis and his brethren.
I'm sitting here in Central Florida right now and I could get into my car and drive to any polling location in Central Florida without even a detour. Do you think the people in Lee County could do that?
It’s been said above. He hasn’t expanded access in Orange County. And he took a polar opposite position in the last election when we were in the midst of the Covid Pandemic.
