Election law & voting rights prof @ukcollegeoflaw. Book: @VoteForUSBook, available at: http://amzn.to/2ohbuls. Op-eds for @CNN & others. Also at @joshdouglas@masto.aiSource
Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new election law allowing him to run for president without resigning his seat as governor. But that’s not the most significant part of the new law. It also imposes several unnecessary restrictions on community organizations that engage in voter registration drives, making it even harder for such groups to register new voters. Voting rights advocates have already filed suit. The provisions may well be unlawful, even for a conservative Supreme Court. As I recount in a new report for the Institute for Responsive Government, community voter...…Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new election law allowing him to run for president without resigning his seat as governor. But that’s not the most significant part of the new law. It also imposes several unnecessary restrictions on community organizations that engage in voter registration drives, making it even harder for such groups to register new voters. Voting rights advocates have already filed suit. The provisions may well be unlawful, even for a conservative Supreme Court. As I recount in a new report for the Institute for Responsive Government, community voter...WW…