Explicia.Co: The battle against state laws that try to limit the right to vote in the US
Alex Gulotta, from the All Voting is Local Campaign, Arizona, recalls that many of these state laws to limit the vote come just after the November 2020 election, which registered participation records, despite the pandemic: “for example barriers to voter registration that happened in Florida; purging the vote-by-mail list that happened in Arizona and Florida, banning or limiting mailboxes, as Georgia and Florida have done and is being considered in other states, restricting early voting in Georgia, basically undermining all the things that led us To have a historic turnout in the 2020 elections, they are being made illegal in many states, not in all places, but a great effort is being made to make this happen, ”said Gulotta.
WinkNews.com: What Florida’s new voting law means for you
Brad Ashwell, the state director for All Voting is Local, said changes due to the law could keep a lot of voters away. “Any time there is an obstacle to voting, it’s going to disproportionately impact more vulnerable communities and those communities that are already challenged by the existing system. That’s typically Black voters, Hispanic voters,” he said.
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“By erecting onerous barriers to request and return a vote-by-mail ballot, this legislature has made voting a test of stamina and resources rather than a statement of civic responsibility,” said Brad Ashwell, Florida state director for All Voting is Local, a national voting rights group.
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By signing the bill, said the civil rights organization All Voting Is Local-Florida, "DeSantis is continuing a disturbing, nationwide trend of turning lies into legislation." "The truth is during the 2020 election cycle, Floridians refused to choose between their health and the right to vote, casting vote-by-mail ballots in record numbers so they could safely and securely steer the fate of our democracy," said Brad Ashwell, director of the organization. "SB90 weaponizes lies and uses them as a basis to exact a vendetta against Floridians, assaulting our freedom to vote. There is no integrity in restricting access to the ballot box.”
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"Data from county supervisors collected by All Voting is Local, a nonpartisan voting rights group, does not show whether minority voters tended to use drop boxes more than other groups. It’s also not clear how many Floridians would be prohibited from requesting vote-by-mail ballots because they don’t have a driver’s license, state ID or a Social Security number, although Brad Ashwell, All Voting is Local’s Florida state director, said such laws have a history of affecting minority voters. “Study after study have shown they have a disproportionate impact on Black voters and other minority voters,” Ashwell said."
NBCnews.com “Fla. becomes latest state to enact restrictive voting law as DeSantis signs bill on Fox News”
"The bill "seeks to silence voters’ voices based on what they look like or where they come from," voting- and civil-rights activists from more than 20 local and national groups — including the NAACP and the Florida chapters of the ACLU and All Voting is Local — wrote in a letter to DeSantis sent before he signed the bill."