Federal judge blocks Florida from banning voter registration drives

You may recall that the Republicans in Florida recently passed a state law that makes it virtually impossible for any independent group to conduct voter registration drives. The law asseses heavy fines for any mishandling of any voter registration for any reason, including, for example, if the voter registration was destroyed by hurrican damage when in the hands of the independent group. As a consequence, the League of Women Voters, among other independent groups, was forced to cancel their planned voter registration drives.

The reason for this law, of course, is that new registrants rounded up by independent groups tend to favor Democrats, so Republicans see it in their interest to supress the vote by supressing voter registration.

Several other states, including Ohio, have adopted or plan to adopt similar laws.

Well, there's some good news today. A federal judge in Florida has blocked the State from enforcing this absurd law. Hopefully, similar prohibitions will be invoked on the other states that plan this kind of disenfranchisement.