| Last May, Florida radically overhauled its election law. In the name of preventing voter fraud, the bill slashed the early voting period nearly in half, shifted many voters to provisional ballots which often are never counted, and invalidated absentee ballots if the voter's signature did not match official records.
Now, according to the New York Times, the law is already having an impact on voter registration, with the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote curtailing their efforts in the state. The law also requires third-party groups like those to submit registration cards within 48 hours of signature or pay a fine. Sabu Williams, the head of a local branch of the NAACP, experienced that part of the law firsthand during the past Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend... |
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