creates and arrests people for voting when people don t get out and vote like they should anyway. so that hurt. my mom s first vote as an immigrant who got her citizenship was also jimmy carter. let me read another piece of this washington post piece. this is peter washington, one of the people arrested for voting. and it says here, for washington, the lesson of it all is clear. voting is dangerous. he s telling others they should be weary of it too even if they don t have a iteminal record. one of his adult children already decided he won t be casting a ballot. a friend is doubting it too. washington said i told him i wouldn t advise it because it s a trap. do you think that was the purpose of doing this, that ron desantis wants to discourage particularly black people from voting, whether or not they have a former felony arrest? exactly, they have been doing this for years, piece by piece by piece, creating new rules all the time about voting to discourage voting. they re not tr
One by one, many of the initial 20 arrests made by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office of Election Crimes and Security have stumbled in court. Now, DeSantis is seeking to spend more.