Breaking: Florida legislature passes Georgia-style voter suppression bill #SB90 criminalizing giving food/water to voters in line, restricting mail ballot drop boxes, making it harder to vote by mail & expanding partisan challenges to vote counting motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
For two decades GOP cited Florida as model for mail voting. Now they’re rolling back voting access after 680,000 more Dems voted by mail in 2020 & Black share of mail voting doubled. Republicans changing rules the minute they don’t advantage them 
Most ridiculous part of new FL voter suppression bill: instead of being available 24/7 every mail ballot drop box must be staffed by an election worker at all times & election officials will be fined $25,000 if they don’t comply. Absurdly punitive
SEVEN GOP-controlled states have already passed new laws making it harder to vote this year: FL GA IA AR MT WY UT
If Dems don’t pass For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act GOP will undermine democracy for next decade & beyond
If Dems don’t pass For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act GOP will undermine democracy for next decade & beyond
"In 2020, 43% of Floridians—4.7 million people—voted by mail and Dems accounted for 45% of mail voters compared to 31% for Republicans. While vote-by-mail use rose across the board from 2016 to 2020, it doubled among Black voters, the largest increase among any demographic group"
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