DeSantis’ Florida Notches Federal Court Win Against NAACP, Other Advocacy Groups
After advocacy groups such as the NAACP sued claiming Florida’s voter registration process was just too strict, a federal judge said that it is not.
On Monday, Judge Allen Winsor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida approved a motion to dismiss a case that challenged Florida’s signature requirement, according to Florida’s Voice.
Groups including the NAACP and Vote.org, filed the lawsuit.
The groups sought to throw out parts of the Florida law they felt contradicted what’s known as the Materiality Provision of federal civil rights law saying state laws should not use “immaterial errors or omissions to deny the right to vote.”
Providing “original signatures” was restrictive and also disenfranchising,
