How the hell is this even legal?
It isn’t, and he doesn’t care.
DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eased strict voting rules for over a million voters affected by Hurricane Ian, but only in the deep red counties of Lee, Charlotte, and Sarasota. They will have extended early day voting and be allowed to have mail-in ballot sent to addresses not listed in the voting records, since many houses have flooded.
Meanwhile, blue Orange County has had the worst flooding in its history, but the governor essentially told them to go pound sandbags. People, like my daughter, had her residence flooded and is not receiving mail to her home. This is spiteful and politicizes a natural disaster.
Keep in mind that DeSantis also personally and illegally gerrymandered his own map with as fewest Democratic districts as was possible, even breaking our own state constitutional requirement for having a minimum number of Black districts. His own lawyer admitted it was illegal. But who’s going to stop him?
This is the top contender for the GOP nomination for president. If we don’t stop him now, imagine what he will do if he gets Washington.