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The Republican National Committee and Florida GOP are intervening to stop Democrats’ attempts to dismantle voter registration verification requirements in Florida.
RNC Chairman Michael Whatley released a statement expressing concerns over the left’s latest attack in the Sunshine State.
“The voter registration matching law is a commonsense election safeguard that protects against fraud. Election officials should confirm that the person registering is who they claim to be, plain and simple,” he wrote in a statement shared on the Trump campaign website.
“In attacking this protection, Democrats have once again proven they want an election system that makes it easier to cheat. We are defending the law to uphold election integrity in Florida,” he added.
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Leftist groups have initiated a lawsuit against Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, Attorney General Ashley Moody and other election officials, contesting the state’s voter registration match law.
This law mandates that specific identifying information on voter registration applications, such as a driver’s license or state ID number or the last four digits of a social security number, must match exactly with the information in state and federal databases.
The RNC is stepping in to defend the law, as we are dedicated to ensuring election integrity in Florida and nationwide for this crucial election.
Florida Politics reported that the motion to intervene said that changing enforcement of the “exact match” requirement “on the eve of the election inhibits the State’s obligation to ‘ensure that voter registration records … are accurate and are updated regularly,’ which includes a ‘reasonable effort to remove registrants who are ineligible to vote.’”
“Of note, Florida Rising Together — represented by the Advancement Project, Community Justice Project, Dechert LLP law firm and Mark Dorosin, a professor at Florida A&M University — did not seek an emergency injunction, meaning the case’s outcome wasn’t likely to affect the Nov. 5 election,” the report continued.
The issue follows several controversies related to election integrity recently addressed by the RNC. As RSBN previously reported, another case with the Georgia Republican Party asked a state appeals court to overturn the ruling of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox.
The judge ruled on Wednesday that the board does not have the authority to put seven rules into effect.
“By overturning the Georgia State Election Board’s commonsense rules passed to safeguard Georgia’s elections, the judge sided with the Democrats in their attacks on transparency, accountability, and the integrity of our elections,” RNC Chairman Whatley said.
“We have immediately appealed this egregious order to ensure commonsense rules are in place for the election – we will not let this stand,” he added.