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DeSantis gives Fox News the exclusive on signing new voting restrictions into law
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signs Florida voting bill in front of Trump fan club
The event was nationally televised on Fox News. Florida reporters were excluded.
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Hundreds gather in West Palm Beach to honor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares to sign an elections overhaul bill that many say will make it harder for Floridians to vote.
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TALLAHASSEE â During a nationally televised event hosted by a fan club of former President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed into law contentious and wide-ranging changes to the stateâs voting system, including provisions targeting voting by mail and limiting the use of ballot drop boxes.
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DeSantis defended the decision to give Fox News exclusive access to the signing.
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Florida election bill caught up in new controversy
Gov. Ron DeSantis created new controversy around Florida s already controversial new election law Thursday, giving exclusive access to the signing ceremony to Fox News.(Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
Gov. Ron DeSantis created new controversy around Florida s new election law Thursday, giving exclusive access to the signing ceremony to Fox News and barring other media outlets from covering the event. In about an hour, behind this door at meeting facility at Airport Hilton in West Palm Beach, @GovRonDeSantis will sign law making it harder for some people to vote. No Florida reporters allowed in because he’s given an exclusive to cable channel Fox News for the bill signing, tweeted Anthony Man, the senior political writer for the So
However, civil and voting rights groups promptly filed a complaint in federal court alleging the law violates the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and Common Cause argue that the law imposes burdensome identification requirements to vote by mail and severely limits drop boxes among other hurdles, provisions which will negatively impact voters of color and those with disabilities. I m not a fan of drop boxes at all, to be honest with you, but the legislature wanted to keep them, DeSantis said on Fox.
The governor, who signed the bill inside a Hilton hotel near the Palm Beach airport, was flanked by supporters, who clapped and cheered at his answers in the interview.
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