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In Florida you cannot vote if you don't have a state ID. On top of that, Florida is also a "Real ID" only state for drivers licenses.
Voter ID alone is said to give about a 5% edge to the GOP, as people with ID are about 5% more likely to vote GOP than those without it. Add "Real ID" and that edge grows. Now add felony disenfranchisement for any of Florida's huge laundry list of felonies. There are lots of people here who are simply not allowed to vote.
Some years ago, some GOP meathead said "if everyone was allowed to vote we'd never win another election." Truer words are rarely spoken.
Then there's the crude shit, like fliers about "how to vote" with fake warnings about warrant checks at the polls or even parking tickets having to be paid up. Unofficial GOP operatives have done shit like that, usually in Black neighborhoods or even the parking lots of Black churches for many years.
Then we have the DeSantis special election police and those 20 people they arrested and threatened with years in prison for technical voting violations that were difficult to even know were issues. Targets were those who had been told their voting rights had been restored after a conviction but where in fact this process had not completed. This sends a message "vote and we will seek any reason to arrest you" to those who they don't want at the polls.
The 2000 "butterfly ballot" fracas that transferred enough Al Gore votes to Ralph Nader (and was called out by Nader for this) happened in Palm Beach County, Florida. May have been that year cops set up a "highway safety" checkpoint somewhere in the US between a Black neighborhood and their polling place.
All of these incidents are just times when they got caught.
These pieces of shit never fight "fair" because they'd always lose if they did.
If you are allowed to vote, PLEASE show up and vote to protect abortion even if this means voting for Mickey Mouse for President over the genocide of Gaza.
If a 60% margin is needed to approve the referendum, add another 5% for votes lost to Voter ID, and a bit more for all the other voter suppression. Yet the referendum is expected to pass, which is why DeSantis fought it so hard. This implies actual support for abortion rights could easily be 70% or even more, possibly everyone that doesn't attend Southern Baptist or similar church services every single Sunday.