More Bogus Voter Fraud

The Brennen Center of Justice finds that Florida's law forcing third party groups to turn in voter registration forms within ten days is unreasonable and disenfranchises minority voters. But that was always the point behind the law.

Because Florida's third-party voter registration law has a chilling effect on the conduct of voter registration drives, it will necessarily decrease the amount of third-party voter registration that happens in Florida and in the five counties covered under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Black and Hispanic Florida voters and Florida voters from Spanishspeaking households are twice as likely to register to vote through third-party voter registration drives as white voters or voters from English-speaking households. Any law that restricts the conduct of voter registration drives will therefore have a retrogressive effect on the voting rights of racial and language minorities. Florida cannot meet its burden of demonstrating that its third-party voter registration law does not have a retrogressive effect.

This is another page from the Republican Party's bogus voter fraud playbook. The report finds that third parrty's are placed with an unfair burden to turn in voter registration forms and there is no evidence that these groups have been holding forms until the last minute.