New Florida election law stirs up controversy

[BDBoop]

New Florida election law stirs up controversy - News

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The teacher who heads up New Smyrna Beach High School's student government association could face thousands of dollars in fines. Her transgression? Helping students register to vote.

Prepping 17-year-olds for the privileges and responsibilities of voting in a democracy is nothing new for civics teachers, but when Jill Cicciarelli organized a drive at the start of the school year to get students pre-registered, she ran afoul of Florida's new and controversial election law.

Among other things, the new rules require that third parties who sign up new voters register with the state and that they submit applications within 48 hours. The law also reduces the time for early voting from 14 days to eight and requires voters who want to give a new address at the polls to use a provisional ballot.

This is craziness.

 

[zzzz]

Trying to cut down on all the dead people voting I suppose. They pass these laws but do not think through all the ramifications and in the end they have to pass a bunch of add-ons to correct these oversights.