“The governor’s personal goon force will exist to do only one thing: intimidate Black voters.” Florida Republicans passed a bill creating a special elections police force meant to monitor elections at the behest of far right Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The bill is the most extreme yet in Republicans’ push to suppress voters en masse, and voting rights advocates say that it will disproportionately affect Black voters.Walter Shaub“It’s also gonna be a felony to take your sick grandma’s ballot to a drop box for her, unless you strap her in a cart and wheel her down there with you,” Shaub continued, referencing the fact that the bill
for a voter to bring other people’s ballots to a dropoff location, which would disproportionately affect disabled or elderly people. The punishment for that is a hefty fine of up to $50,000 and five years in prison. Even before Republicans began passing exceedingly punitive voter suppression laws, Black voters were already
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