League of Women Voters to Restart Registration Drive

Source: Miami Herald

The League of Women Voters said they are ready to resume their interrupted registration efforts just days after winning a federal injunction against Florida.



By Adam C. Smith Tampa Bay Times


ST. PETERSBURG -- Veteran League of Women Voters volunteer Mary Berglund had been registering voters since 1986, until the civic group a year ago abruptly halted its 72-year practice in the face of a new Florida law restricting voter registration campaigns.

“It just seemed so unfair and was so unexpected,’’ Berglund said of the 2011 state law that, among other things, imposed stiff fines for groups that failed to submit voter registration forms within 48 hours of obtaining them.

But Berglund and her civic-minded colleagues gathered in front of a Pinellas County elections office Wednesday to announce they are getting back in the game. After a federal judge last week temporarily blocked parts of that new elections law as violations of the First Amendment, the League of Women Voters and other groups are resuming their nonpartisan registration efforts.

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