Republicans Made It Dangerous To Register A Voter. These Kids Do It Anyway.
Republicans Made It Dangerous To Register A Voter. These Kids Do It Anyway. Florida Republicans raised the fine for registering voters to $250,000. Registration drives collapsed by 95 percent. The Florida Youth Justice Coalition is out there doing it anyway. Defiant Donkey Sep 27 Cecile Scoon runs the League of Women Voters in Florida. Her organization has registered tens of thousands of voters. She had to stop collecting paper registration forms, because one fine under the new law would be larger than her entire annual budget. The fine is $250,000. They Priced Democracy Out Of Reach In 2022, Republicans raised the maximum yearly fine for a voter registration group from $1,000 to $50,000. The next year they raised it again, to $250,000. You can trigger it by handing in a form eleven days after someone signs it instead of ten. Or by turning a form in to the wrong county office. They also require the volunteer who registered you to print their own full name on a receipt and hand it...