Florida Republicans Worry Voting Restrictions May Backfire

Washington Post: “Virtually every narrow Republican victor of the past generation — and there have been many, including two of the state’s current top officeholders, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott — owes their victory, at least in part, to mail voting.”

“Now, some Florida Republicans are reacting with alarm after the GOP-dominated state legislature, with DeSantis’s support, passed a far-reaching bill Thursday night that puts new restrictions on the use of mail ballots.”

Said one Florida Republican consultant: “The main law that we pass when we pass election bills in Florida is the law of unintended consequences.”