| New Florida laws that place harsh restrictions on third-party voter registration groups and limit the early voting period may have been passed with a discriminatory intent, lawyers with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division suggested in a court filing on Tuesday.
DOJ told the court that the federal government's position was that Florida "has not met its burden of proof" in demonstrating that "the proposed voting changes neither have the purpose nor will have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group." It singled out the provisions of Florida's new voting law that place restrictions on third-party voter registration groups, shorten the early voting period and make voters who move to a different county cast provisional ballots. |
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