U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle got it right when he granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting Florida’s secretary of state from enforcing the portions of Florida’s voting law, as amended in 2011, which severely curtail the voter-registration efforts of civically minded nonpartisan groups trying to increase voter participation.
The injunction order was entered last week in a lawsuit brought by, among others, the venerable League of Women Voters, one of America’s most-trusted organizations. In the lawsuit, the League alleged that it was forced to stop its voter-registration drives in Florida something it had been doing for 70 years because the 2011 voting law was so onerous that the organization was at constant risk of noncompliance if it continued its registration activities.
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