Now here’s an interesting twist that would make sure pro-life Republican legislators win elections. I guess they figure the tea party vote won’t be enough now that redistricting is about to change their power entrenchment in Florida.
In this Legislative session, six abortion bills have passed in the Republican-controlled Florida House to place additional limits on abortion rights. We know pro-lifers won’t rest until they make abortion altogether illegal in the U.S. That’s why they have to make sure more pro-life politicians are elected to public office.
However, because redistricting might not work on their favor due to the Fair District amendments to the Florida Constitution passed last year, they have figure ways to curtail the vote of younger people, minorities and low-income residents who most likely would vote Democrat.
Rep. Dennis Baxley, the Ocala Republican who sponsored a bill to shift the revenue of Choose Life license plates’ from counties to the Ocala-based Choose Life Corporation is the same guy who has sponsored a convoluted bill geared at ripping apart election laws that in the past have made it easier for Floridians to vote, and replacing them with laws that could bring election outcomes in the Republicans' favor.
The “Election Transparency and Accountability” bill calls for far less time to vote as it cuts the two-week early voting to two days. Early voting enhances turnout, and usually greater voter turnouts can favor Democratic candidates.
The bill also makes it far more difficult to vote. For 40 years, Floridians who've recently moved have been able to update their addresses at the polls on Election Day. You won’t be able to do that anymore.
Rep. Baxley insists that obliterating the address-change option at polls would curb voter fraud. What? Has fraud ever been fraud tied to updating addresses at the polls?
It just so happens that college students, low-income and minority voters disproportionately fill the ranks of those who ask to update their addresses on Election Day. These tend to vote Democrat.
Voter registration will be more difficult. Vote registration organizations like the League of Women Voters will have to submit applications within two days instead of 10 — or get hit with financial penalties. What? Isn’t quite the opposite true — that everything should be made easier for people to register and vote?
This country is being held hostage by the pro-life crowd, and because of that Americans are facing a debilitating democracy.
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