The NAACP and Vote.org just lost their lawsuit against the DeSantis administration after a federal judge in Florida dismissed the case.
The lawsuit challenged the “original signatures” requirement for voter registration, claiming that forcing people to use a ‘wet signature’ as opposed to photocopies, facsimiles, or electronic checkmarks disenfranchised voters.
Here’s more from Florida’s Voice:
Judge Allen Winsor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida granted a motion to dismiss a case against Florida’s voter registration process on Monday.
The voter rights advocacy groups, including the NAACP and Vote.org, filed the case in order to challenge Florida’s voter registration signature authentication requirement.
The groups sought for Florida’s law to comply with a federal law that prevents any states from using “immaterial errors or omissions to deny the right to vote.”
They also argued that forcing individuals to provide “original signatures” was too restrictive and disenfranchising.
”Plaintiffs’ entire premise is that a copied, faxed, or otherwise non-original signature is equal in stature to an original, wet signature. But we know this not to be so,” Winsor wrote in his decisions.
“In Plaintiffs’ view, federal law requires states to accept photocopies, facsimiles, electronic checkmarks, or something other than an original signature,” Winsor added.
He mentioned that the Materiality Provision, the federal law the plaintiffs are citing, does not allow for these types of signatures.
The provision was necessary to help those who may have become disenfranchised for resolving their wrong date of birth during the era of literacy tests.
This just shows Democrats will exploit any method possible to try and cheat. I’m glad they lost and hopefully this case stays dismissed.