{"id":20210,"date":"2018-07-26T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20210"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:18:45","slug":"florida-injunction-allows-early-in-person-voting-on-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20210","title":{"rendered":"Florida injunction allows early in-person voting on campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/florida-politics\/buzz\/2018\/07\/24\/judge-faults-state-and-approves-early-voting-on-college-university-campuses\/\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s elections officials showed &#8220;a stark pattern of discrimination&#8221; in blocking early voting at state college and university campuses, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\" col-xs-12 col-md-8 col-md-offset-4 col-lg-9 col-lg-offset-3 col-print-12 element element-paragraph\">Walker ruled that a 2014 state opinion that banned early voting on campus violates three amendments to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\" col-xs-12 col-md-8 col-md-offset-4 col-lg-9 col-lg-offset-3 col-print-12 element element-paragraph\">&#8220;Simply put, (the state) opinion reveals a stark pattern of discrimination,&#8221; Judge Walker wrote. &#8220;It is unexplainable on grounds other than age because it bears so heavily on younger voters than on all other voters. (The state&#8217;s) stated interests for the opinion (following state law, avoiding parking issues, and minimizing on-campus disruption) reek of pretext.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Judge Walker&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudup.com\/iRgk2VxxXnS\">injunction<\/a>\u00a0makes a good read, as legal documents go. For instance, &#8220;Defendant measures the walking and biking distance between the\u00a0nearest early voting site and UF from the <em>very<\/em> edge of campus. &#8230; The University of Florida is like Hogwarts, which proscribes on-campus apparating\u2014or instantaneous teleportation. Students do not and cannot apparate within the campus.\u00a0 Rather, UF students would begin their treks to the early voting site in downtown Gainesville from various points across campus. For example, it is a 2.5-mile distance from the center of campus at a dormitory like Hume Hall\u00a0to the early voting site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We submitted an expert report in support of the plaintiffs this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Tampa Bay Times: TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s elections officials showed &#8220;a stark pattern of discrimination&#8221; in blocking early voting at state college and university campuses, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. [&#8230;] Walker ruled that a 2014 state opinion that banned early voting on campus violates three amendments to the U.S. Constitution. &#8220;Simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20213,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions\/20213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}