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Did you deposit your absentee ballot in a drop box? Baxley wants to stop you
Our local state Senator, Baxley, has introduced a bill which will very significantly make it harder for all of us to vote. One would think with a huge percentage of Villagers voting by mail he'd think twice about introducing new hoops. There have been no allegations of problems in Florida with the system as it now exists.
His bill makes two very significant changes. Presently you need to make your request for a mail ballot every four years. His bill changes that to every other year. The county will need to notify you by mail paying the postage cost if you have failed to renew. This will be very expensive for the county. And the present system where there are ballot drop boxes at all early voting locations and the very heavily used one at the Gold dome building will be eliminated. The only place you will be able to drop off an absentee ballot will be directly at the office of the Supervision of elections. Here is the language from his bill: Quote:
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Remember when everyone was wanted to vote ? Years of investigations have shown how well we do voting, so you just wonder why this rush to fix what isn’t broken. |
Senator Baxley - The Florida Senate
Contact Dennis Baxley's Campaign For contact information. Proposing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Who is he grandstanding for? |
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Marion County requires requesting mail-in ballot every 2 years.
I'm fine with that. |
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I blame the Developer!:icon_wink:
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Rules!!!!! We don’t need no stinking Rules.:boxing2:
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I do not see this as a big expense. There were 22,000 absence tee voters in 2020 for Sumter County. If even 10% do not respond the cost would be about $1200.00 for card mailing. This not a lot of money for a county that is growing by vast numbers every year. Current information is better then ballots being discarded. the cost to print a post card is a lot less than a large ballet with two envelopes.
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Sounds like an a voter suppression bill to me.
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A good step towards maintaining election integrity. We are living through the result of the lack of integrity in certain states.
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This posting perfectly represents what the new people to the villages that we have spoken to are complaining about.
They are afraid that the politics they left behind are here and they, and a lot of us here, hate. Good job moderator. |
Make Election Day a national holiday. Shut it all down and go vote in person. Make Walmart and Publix polling places. No early voting no mail in ballots. Integrity of elections restored.
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