Fearing Legal Risks, Fla. Voter Registration Groups Scale Back

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

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Florida recently increased criminal penalties for mistakes and possible fraud by groups who work to register voters. The move has led many of the groups to dramatically scale back their efforts to limit their legal risk. That could lead to lower turnout rates for young voters and voters of color in November.

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0:00.0	This message comes from the Kresky Foundation.
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0:10.0	A Century of Impact, a Future of Opportunity.
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0:15.0	Hi, this is Elizabeth from Cleveland, Ohio.
0:19.0	But today I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia, where I'll be meeting up with alumni from the university where I work
0:27.2	before heading to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore for more events.
0:32.3	This podcast was recorded at 1.10 PM
0:35.0	Eastern time on Thursday May 16th of 2024. Things may have changed by the time you
0:40.8	hear it like I might be in a completely different city and a
0:44.2	completely different country. Very nice. But wherever you are, enjoy the show.
0:51.8	Well hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm a Smachala, I cover the White House.
0:56.6	I'm Ashley Lopez, I cover voting.
0:58.4	And I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics.
1:00.4	And today on the show, new state laws that crack down on voter registration drives.
1:05.0	We'll talk about why these laws came about and why some groups that work to register voters think that they are dangerous.
1:12.0	Ashley, you have been looking into this with Arizona. register voters think that they are dangerous.
1:12.6	Ashley, you have been looking into this with Aaron Mendelssohn and the Center for
1:16.1	Public Integrity.
1:17.4	So I want to start the conversation with you by just getting a better explanation of
1:21.9	who these groups are that work to register
1:24.3	voters and why they do that work. So the groups that Aaron and I were focused on in
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