Judge Throws Out Parts Of New Florida Voting Law  Melissa Block
speaks with Matt Dixon, statehouse reporter for The Florida
Times-Union, about a provision of a Florida law that tightened
submission deadlines for groups running voter registration
drives. It changed them from 10 days after they had been filled
out to 48 hours, with a $1,000-a-day late fine. A U.S. district
judge now plans to file a permanent injunction against the law.
And there's been another victory for opponents of new
restrictive voting laws, this time in Florida. Yesterday a
federal judge threw out parts of the Florida law, after calling
them harsh and impractical. This law changed how voter
registration works. Florida's Republican leaders say it was
intended to reduce fraud, but groups that organized voting
drives said it created huge obstacles. And this week, the
Florida Times Union reported that since the law went into
effect, new voter registration among Democrats fell drastically.
Matt Dixon wrote that story. He's in Tampa for the