Gerrymandering and voter suppression are extremely prevalent in Florida. Just one example: back in 2018. 65% of voting Floridians voted for an amendment that automatically returned voting rights to many people convicted of crimes who had completed their sentence. The very next year, Desantis signed a law that gutted that amendment. The law requires that the people whose vote is being returned must first pay a whole host of fines. Of course they were sued and the trial court has found this pay to vote system unconstitutional. Of course the Florida attorney general appealed.
The estimate of citizens who should be able to vote because of this amendment is over one and a half million. That is a lot of disenfranchisement.
Then there is the giant misinformation machine created by the GOP. The GOP are unfortunately masters of manipulating people’s fears. Add that in to how much they’ve suppressed the vote and you get this.
