I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, May 5th.

Is the new Florida voting law even worse than the one in Georgia, and how far will the GOP drive to make it harder to vote go without being stopped in court?

With us first is WNYC legal editor and race and justice editor, Jamie Floyd.

Hi, Jamie. Welcome back to the show.

Good morning, Brian.

What are the most restrictive parts of the Florida law that passed last week?

And how do they compare to the New Georgia law, which has gotten so much publicity and blowback?

Right.

So first, Brian, I'll say there are hundreds of these voter suppression bills circulating in state houses across America.

I count about 250 such bills in 43 states. So I'll do my best

to analyze them with some fairness and clarity, especially as you say, Florida, Georgia,

also top of radar, Texas and Alabama. These are the places people are focused on. I'm not an election

lawyer, and you know, Brian, part of the reason this is so fraught is that election law is a really highly

specific area of constitutional law. It's a subsection, and there are people who spend their entire careers digging into the hundreds of provisions in each one of these laws.

So then to answer your question specifically and doing my best, Florida passed.

They passed in April a sweeping multifaceted voter restriction bill. It's a Republican-controlled legislature, of sweeping, multifaceted voter restriction bill.

It's a Republican-controlled legislature, of course, there in Florida.

And it's known as SB 90, Senate Bill 90, and it delivers to Republican Governor Ronda

Santos, his promise to severely restrict access to the ballot.

And this all came about, of course, after former president Donald Trump lost the election nationwide,

but narrowly won in Florida after saying that election security was a major issue in elections.

And like laws in other states, you mentioned Georgia, SB 90 adds additional

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