Are Florida's changes to early voting an attempt to reduce the number of dems voting?

Changes to the law in Florida have just gone into effect that would limit the time frame for early voting in the state

In Florida, nearly 3.3 million Democrats cast in-person ballots before Election Day in the 2008 contest that swept President Obama into power. By contrast, 810,666 Florida Republicans participated in the in-person early voting that year, according to the Florida secretary of State's office. Obama won the state by 3 percentage points. [ SOURCE USA Today ]

Under the new law, Florida early voting will go from 14 days to eight. Voting on the last Sunday before the election also has been abolished

The change in laws could also affect black and latino voters.

In Florida, 54% of African-American voters cast their ballots early in the 2008 general election, and blacks made up nearly a third of statewide turnout the Sunday before Election Day, when some black churches organized a "Get Your Souls to the Polls" voter drive, said Ryan Haygood of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.



The so-called Souls to the Polls campaigns were a windfall for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Democrats. According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, more than 32 percent of those who voted early on that last Sunday before Election Day were African American, and nearly 24 percent were Latino SOURCE Huffingtonpost

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