Democrats May Actually Be Banned From Elections Due to New, Batshit Florida Invoice

Disenfranchising voters has lengthy been one of many Republican Celebration’s many pet initiatives. For probably the most half, they’ve executed it by utilizing sneaky, oblique measures, like gerrymandering and limiting the usage of poll drop packing containers. And whereas that’s been fairly efficient, no less than one Florida lawmaker has determined that it’s excessive time the GOP drops the charade and simply…bans the Democratic Celebration from elections. Which we assume has Republicans in different states questioning why they didn’t consider that themselves.

Per Spectrum Information 13:

A brand new proposed invoice might pave the best way for the official removing of the Democratic Celebration from official voting info if handed on this 12 months’s legislative session in Tallahassee. The invoice, at present titled SB 1248, requires the state Division of Elections to cancel the “filings” of a political celebration, to incorporate celebration registration and accredited standing in any and all elections if that celebration’s platform had beforehand advocated for slavery, or involuntary servitude. 

Though not explicitly listed, the Democratic Celebration, which was in style within the nation’s South throughout Reconstruction, would match the outline. Economics and civil rights fueled vital modifications in each events within the years since. The invoice consists of language that will require any voter at present registered as a member of a canceled celebration to be notified by that political celebration to replace their voter registration to an accredited and lively political celebration. 

The invoice was filed by Florida state Senator Blaise Ingoglia who argued that that is merely about giving cancel-culture libs a style of their very own drugs. “For years now, leftist activists have been making an attempt to ‘cancel’ individuals and corporations for issues they’ve mentioned or executed prior to now,” he mentioned in an announcement. “This consists of the removing of statues and memorials, and the renaming of buildings. Utilizing this customary, it could be hypocritical to not cancel the Democrat Celebration itself for a similar purpose.”

In response, the Democratic Celebration of Florida issued an announcement noting that the invoice would “disenfranchise 5 million voters is each unconstitutional and unserious. Underneath Ron DeSantis, Senator Ingoglia is utilizing his workplace to push payments which can be nothing greater than publicity stunts as a substitute of specializing in the problems that matter most to Floridians, similar to reforming property insurance coverage, addressing housing affordability, and combating local weather change.”

Whereas it appears extremely unlikely Ingoglia’s invoice will move, he might, in concept, have the votes, provided that Florida’s governorship and legislature have been managed by Republicans since 1999, and the legislature at present enjoys a cushty supermajority. Then again, passage of the invoice is clearly a secondary aim, the first one being to troll liberals. However who is aware of—perhaps DeSantis will rally assist! In any case, it does appear up his alley.