How Ron DeSantis waged a targeted assault on Black voters: ‘I fear for what’s to come’

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In gerrymandering voting maps and gutting one of the biggest expansions of voting rights, the Florida governor seeks to dilute Black political power

with top Republican mapmakers, proposed a plan that sliced up Lawson’s district and heavily favored Republicans in 20 of Florida’s 28 congressional seats, a bump up from the 16 GOP seats that the legislature proposed. DeSantis’s map also cut the number of districts in which Black voters had a chance to elect a candidate of their choice from four to two.

Ben Frazier, an activist who leads a nonprofit called the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, emphasized the need for federal assistance as he drove around the city’s 33209 zip code – one of the most dangerous in the city – pointing out boarded-up businesses and houses. If DeSantis succeeds in dismantling districts like Lawson’s, it could ultimately provide legal cover for other states to do the same, Li said. In the federal courts, DeSantis’s approach joins a long line of conservative cases that have been pushing to raise the bar for when race can be considered in redistricting.Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

, some with their guns drawn and pointed at him. They put him in handcuffs and told him he was under arrest.in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom, flanked by uniformed law enforcement officers, and announced Miller was among 19 people with prior criminal convictions being arrested for voter fraud and would “pay the price”. They were charged with multiple counts of third-degree felonies, each punishable by up to five years in prison.

 

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The US is a basket case. The right to vote yeah right.

What a mess America is in. It’s really sad.

Ron wants to go back to living in 1776. He's winding back laws to then.

That is another lie from the Guardian. How many in one day? Going for the record?

Workshopping new labels for The Guardian Beneath contempt. What do you think elonmusk ?

Seriously, this propoganda is too much. You've given up any attempt to be real news at this point

He is an absolute legend. I love how he talks to the fake news media. All those dopey reporters with no idea, he really gives it to them. He is for all people no matter what colour the skin. This is a just a leftist hit job as per usual.

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