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Stop the Vote

July 24th, 2014 by flanews

Illegally drawn congressional maps could cause a delay in some Florida elections. As Matt Galka tells us, it’s in the judges hands now.

A successful lawsuit against the Florida legislature found that the Republican Party illegally drew maps to benefit itself. So now what? The League of Women Voters and other plaintiffs say the election needs to be delayed.

“We have a map that has been found to be unconstitutional, it’s not just two districts, if you read the judge’s decision the entire map has been found to be unconstitutional, in effect there is no map right now, and Florida voters deserve to have map put in place,” said the group’s attorney, John Devaney.

Attorneys proposed postponing the congressional primary that is scheduled for August 26th back to mid or late September.  But lawyers for the legislature say that’s impossible.

“To now change districts would create chaos in the election process,” said Attorney Raoul Cantero.

Lawyers also suggested that circuit court judge Terry Lewis redraw the maps. They don’t want lawmakers to get another shot because they already drew them illegally.

With thousands of absentee ballots already out, Florida’s Supervisors of Elections could be put in a tough spot.

“We mailed out our 15,000 absentee ballots to our voters three days, it’s going to be difficult doing a recall on that. Do we print out all the ballots again? It causes confusion,” said Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho.

Proceeding with elections as planned and holding a special congressional election was an option thrown around. Either way, the League’s attorney scoffed at the idea that nothing can be done this year.

“Go hire some more coders, lets work together to make sure voters do have a map,” said Devaney.

The judge says he’s extremely skeptical about bout changing the districts before the elections happen. A ruling is expected next week. Attorneys for the legislature said they would most likely appeal a decision that calls for the maps to be redrawn before the elections.

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