Florida’s Latino community is nearly 29% of the state.
John, Florida Republicans just copied the federal SAVE Act playbook.
Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping new elections law that adds new “show your papers” requirements and other restrictions designed to make voting harder for eligible Floridians.
Voting rights groups are already suing, warning that this law will push eligible voters off the rolls and disrupt voter registration efforts across the state. But we can’t wait for the courts to decide — we need to act now to ensure that eligible voters can still cast their ballots.
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Florida’s Latino community is nearly 29% of the state. And this law creates new barriers that will hit our communities hard, especially Puerto Rican voters, married women who have changed their names, naturalized citizens, young voters, and anyone who does not have easy access to documents like a passport or birth certificate.
It also bans student IDs for voting and expands the role of state agencies in “verifying” citizenship, a process that often leads to mistakes that eligible voters pay for.
This is not about election security. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote. This is about holding power.
DeSantis and Florida Republicans are pulling stunts like this because they can see the ground shifting.
Latino voters in Florida are not a guaranteed vote for anyone, but there are clear signs that Trump’s chaos, high costs, and aggressive immigration agenda are pushing people away, and there are signals that their vote will go to a Democratic candidate. So when politicians know they might lose, they try to change the rules.
If this can happen in Florida, it can and will happen in other states — but Voto Latino will do everything in its power to fight back against these attacks on our democracy.
If you are ready to help us fight back right now, will you chip in right now to support Voto Latino’s work to stop the SAVE Act at the state and federal level and protect our freedom to vote?
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Voto Latino
