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Show Transcript GREG FOX EXPLAIN THE PEOPLE IN FLORIDA WORKING ON THESE ELECTIONS, THEY THEY WORKED THEIR TAILS OFF. THAT WAS GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS NOVEMBER 6TH PRAISING A SMOOTH GENERAL ELECTION. AND HERE HE WAS LAST FRIDAY. WE WANT, OBVIOUSLY, EVERYONE TO VOTE. BUT WE DONâT WANT ANYONE TO CHEAT. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STRIKE THA APPROPRIATE BALANCE. THE REPUBLICAN IS PROPOSING ELECTIONS LAW CHANGES, CHIEF AMONG THEM, MAKING VOTERS REQUEST VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS EVERY CYCLE. RIGHT NOW ITâS GOOD FOR TWO FEDERAL ELECTIONS. WHY DOEDS THE GOVERNOR WANT MORE WORK FOR VOTERS? THE NON-PARTISAN GROUP, ALL VOTING IS LOCAL BELIEVES ITâS BECAUSE 600,000 MORE DEMOCRATS VOTED BY MAIL LAST NOVEMBER, THAN REPUBLICANS AND THE GOVERNOR IS UP FOR RE-EL
Republican Bill Makes Voting Harder
List of restrictions will make it less likely that disabled, nursing home residents and others vote. By Matt Rothschild - Feb 24th, 2021 09:12 am //end headline wrapper ?>Duey Stroebel. Photo from the State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2013-14.
Well, it didn’t take Wisconsin Republicans long to try to capitalize on the Big Lie.
On Feb. 22, State Sen.
Duey Stroebel (R-Saukville) along with State Sen.
Alberta Darling (R- River Hills) and State Reps.
Ken Skowronski (R-Franklin) circulated a batch of bills that would make it harder for Wisconsinites to vote.
Cynically noting that Americans are “skeptical about the integrity of our elections,” Stroebel failed to mention the huge role that
TALLAHASSEE – Three months after a record 4.8 million Floridians cast vote-by-mail ballots, a Republican senator’s proposed dramatic change to the system drew fire Tuesday from Democrats who say it’s aimed at tamping down turnout for their party’s candidates.
Sen. Dennis Baxley’s bill sharply reducing the period that vote-by-mail requests would stay valid narrowly cleared the Senate’s Ethics & Elections Committee in a party-line vote. The Ocala Republican said the measure will safeguard security.
But Democratic senators questioned why Baxley was looking to tinker with a vote-by-mail system hailed as a Florida success in November.
“It seems like the intent of this is to reduce vote-by-mail,” said Sen. Randolph Bracy, D-Orlando.