From the Institute for Southern Studies
Voting rights advocates were shocked after a Republican-dominated committee in the Florida House passed sweeping new election rules after allowing only six minutes of debate last Friday.
The 81-page bill, which among other things eliminates two forms of ID used mostly by elderly voters and restricts third-party voter registration, now moves to the House floor without any chance for public testimony.
A similar bill is on its way to the Senate after passing an elections committee on a 5-3 vote on party lines after being introduced for the first time despite only two weeks remaining in the state’s legislative session.
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Marsha Willoughby
4/27/2009
9:24 am
#269
The Legislature has been very busy but has not done the one job they’re required to do..the budget. Each day it goes over will be a 40K hit a day to the taxpayers based upon news coverage. 40K a day would pay a Teachers salary for a year. What a shameful waste if it happens, we’ll know for sure tomorrow I believe.