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Florida’s top election official is facing accusations of voter suppression after two last-minute moves critics say will lead to intimidation and confusion.
Alarm bells went off last week after the office of Florida’s secretary of state, Laurel Lee, abruptly notified election officials the state was beginning to flag voters for potential removal from the voter rolls if they owed money related to a felony conviction. In a second letter, the state offered an extremely restrictive view on how localities needed to operate ballot drop boxes, which voters are increasingly turning to this year amid United States Postal Service delays.
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Lindsey Graham, the Senate judiciary committee chair, responded to Democrats’ decision to boycott Thursday’s vote on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the supreme court.
“Judge Barrett deserves to be on the supreme court and she will be confirmed,” he wrote in a statement. “As to my Democratic colleagues’ refusal to attend the markup, that is a choice they are making. I believe it does a disservice to Judge Barrett who deserves a vote, up or down.”
