Just before adjourning, the Florida legislature passed an omnibus election law bill, SB 7066. It moves the non-presidential primary from ten weeks before the general election, to eleven weeks before. Therefore, assuming the Governor signs the bill, the 2020 primary will be August 18, not August 25.
The bill also alters the prohibited zone at the polls for persons engaging in First Amendment activity. The old law required petitioners, canvassers, and pamphleteers to stand at least 100 feet from the entrance to a polling place. The bill changes that to 150 feet. It is conceivable that this change could be held unconstitutional.
The bill also legalizes the practice of a voter photographing his or her own voted ballot.
United States Supreme Court
BURSON v. FREEMAN (1992) 504 U.S. 191
No. 90-1056
Argued: October 8, 1991 Decided: May 26, 1992
Respondent Freeman, while the treasurer for a political campaign in Tennessee, filed an action in the Chancery Court, alleging, among other things, that 2-7-111(b) of the Tennessee Code – which prohibits the solicitation of votes and the display or distribution of campaign materials within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling place – limited her ability to communicate with voters in violation of, inter alia, the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The court dismissed her suit, but the State Supreme Court reversed, ruling that the State had a compelling interest in banning such activities within the polling place itself, but not on the premises around the polling place. Thus, it concluded, the 100-foot limit was not narrowly tailored to protect, and was not the least restrictive means to serve, the State’s interests.
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ZERO mention of ANY distance stuff in 1 Amdt –regardless of SCOTUS distance MORON HACKS.
akin to ZERO mention of any $$$ amount in 1st Amdt.
How many more bribes and threats re ballot pics ???
Too many statist New AGE HACK DEVIL M-O-R-O-N-S to count.
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How about pics of WAR plans and WAR codes ???