Calling it Florida’s “latest assault on the right to vote,” a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on a new election law that would have imposed more limits on voter registration efforts.
In May, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 7050, a package of Republican-sponsored reforms to Florida’s election system, including a ban on non-citizen immigrants helping register voters. Groups that retained certain voter registration information, such as for get-out-the-vote operations, could under the law also face felony prosecution.
In a blistering decision, US Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida, agreed with plaintiffs that such provisions are likely illegal.