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Voter Promoter Program

December 16th, 2011 by flanews

Florida’s Secretary of State has a fix to keep teachers from being penalized for trying to register students to vote. The Voter Promoter Campaign encourages school districts to sign up as third party voter registration organizations, that way districts, not teachers, would face fines if mistakes are made. Secretary of State Kurt Browning says the new law is intended to stop fraud, not punish teachers.

“What we want to do is education our students and our teachers about what the law says so nobody gets caught, and they can still participate by registering to vote and going and casting their ballot,” said Browning.

The program comes after several teachers were caught signing up students to vote without registering with the state. The ACLU, Florida PIRG and the League of Women Voters are also challenging the new registration rules in a lawsuit filed yesterday.

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