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The Blog for Monday, June 20, 2005

Election Law Changes

    "Jeb!"
    is expected to sign three elections bills today that would raise a spending cap for gubernatorial candidates to $20 million and limit early voting to eight hours on weekdays and weekends over a 15-day period before Election Day. However, Bush is pondering another measure (HB 1673) that would eliminate the runoff primary election, which catapulted some of the state's most renowned politicians into office.
    There are concerns (which we can expect to be ignored):
    The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida wants Bush to veto two of the bills (HB 1567 and HB 1589) that they say would restrict the ability of third parties to register voters. The ACLU also questions a provision under which the state Division of Elections would create an initial list of felons it believes should not be allowed to vote. Individual supervisors make the final decision to purge names from the voter rolls. ACLU noted the state's track record of "compiling accurate lists of voters to be removed has been poor." ...

    The expanded spending cap for candidates taking public financing in gubernatorial and Cabinet races would benefit the Republican Party of Florida, which outdistances Democrats in fundraising by several million dollars in each election cycle.

    Democrats, already outnumbered 2-to-1 in the Legislature, objected strenuously to raising the cap in governor's races from the 2002 limit of $6.34 million. Democrats preferred the lower cap because state law allows a candidate to get a dollar from the state for every dollar that an opponent raises over the limit.
    "Jeb likely to sign three elections bills today".

    The Day Shift is unimpressed.

7:24 AM

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