Florida Gov. Rick Scott is refusing to follow the lead of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and extend the voter registration deadline for his storm-beleaguered state. Maybe this has something to do with is recalcitrance.
Meanwhile, voter-registration records show, Democrats are walloping Republicans. The Florida Democratic Party has submitted about 488,000 voter-registration forms it has collected for this election, while Republicans have submitted roughly 60,000, according to state reports.
Then there is this, too: Democrats have a 2-to-1 registration advantage among 440,000 newly registered Hispanic voters in the state.
As of August 1, 2016, there are 2.1 million Hispanic registered voters in Florida, according to designation on voter registration forms. Among Hispanic voters, more than one in five are newly registered voters who were added to the voter rolls since the 2012 presidential election. Between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2016, 441,508 Hispanics registered to vote and remain in the statewide voter file. And according to state records they are trending more heavily Democrat in 2016 voter registration than ever before. […]
Since January 1, 2016, 42 percent of all new voter registrations among Hispanics were Democrat, compared to 16 percent among Republicans.
Thanks, Donald Trump. That, however, doesn't make Scott's refusal to allow those people caught up in this storm any extra time to make sure their voice is heard in November any less deplorable.
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