Today, members of the Florida Senate heard a bill that is supposed to address the long lines that affected Florida on Election Day 2012. Project Vote submitted testimony on the bill, SB 600.
“While Project Vote acknowledges that this bill takes some positive steps, it does not go far enough to eliminate barriers to voting, and in some respects creates additional barriers,” Project Vote wrote. “Regarding early voting, the bill leaves too much to be decided by election supervisors: although it helps good election administrators to improve early voting, it does little to require improvement where it is needed most.”
Read Project Vote’s testimony here. Read Senate Bill 600 here.