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Are the laws submitted by Desantis "voter suppression" or common sense?

Asked by crazyguy (3207points) February 19th, 2021

CNN has headlined the story as follows:

“Florida GOP Gov. DeSantis proposes voting restriction bills for state lawmakers to pass this session”. See
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/politics/desantis-florida-election-proposals/index.html

Here are the proposed bills:

1. This bill “would ban vote-by-mail ballots from being sent out to all residents, making it so only voters who request a ballot would receive one.” Th bill would require a voter request each year, which, I think is a bit onerous.

2. Another bill requires that “residents should either mail their absentee ballot or drop it off at an election office.”, instead of using a ballot box.

3. In a third bill “DeSantis also wants lawmakers, when they convene in March, to bolster the vote-by-mail signature verification process and to not “shut out” Florida political parties and candidates from observing the voter signature matching process.”

“DeSantis also wants lawmakers, when they convene in March, to bolster the vote-by-mail signature verification process and to not “shut out” Florida political parties and candidates from observing the voter signature matching process.”

The story goes on to repeat the mantra that there has been no evidence of widespread fraud, but it points out the possibility in another story:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/us/broward-county-dead-people-register-to-vote/index.html

Reading through the proposed legislation, I do not understand why anybody with a clear conscience would have any objection to any of the proposed provisions, except the one I highlighted.

Even though I expect nobody on this board to believe a word I say, let me emphasize that I am genuinely confused by CNN’s headline, and am waiting for enlightenment.

Often, it is not an actual crime, but the appearance of one, that increases the odds of a protest.

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