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🧵 Early voting has begun in Florida, where voting restrictions will only get stricter after this midterm. Plus, Floridians are currently voting under a congressional map that was part of a wave of partisan redraws implemented by Trump. Here’s what to know 👇

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🗺️ REDISTRICTING: In April, Florida Republicans passed an aggressive gerrymander of the state’s congressional map. Florida was not required to get voter approval to redistrict — and it didn’t.

democracydocket.comAn hour after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act, Florida House passes GOP gerrymanderThe vote came just an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in…
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🚨 THREATS TO THE VOTE: Election officials around the state have warned that federal agents have appeared outside early voting sites. Monroe County Supervisor of Elections Sherri Hodies said federal agents carried out an arrest near a voting site.

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🚧 FUTURE VOTING ROADBLOCKS: This is the last election before Florida’s state version of the sweeping anti-voting SAVE America Act goes into effect. Starting in 2027, voters in Florida will be required to prove their citizenship status or lose their right to register to vote and cast a ballot.

democracydocket.comDeSantis attacks elections, signing Florida version of SAVE Act into lawIn rambling remarks after the signing, DeSantis called into question the results of the 2020 presidential election, which President Donald Trump is attempting to relitigate, and sounded many of the…