Ron DeSantis’s Voting Crackdown Is Grotesque
Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s new election cops are locking up the state’s citizens for trying to exercise their most basic political right, the right to vote — all to impress the Extremely Online right.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, on July 18, 2021. (Gage Skidmore / Flickr)
One man in Miami-Dade County was in his underwear when a SWAT Team burst into his home and arrested him. They didn’t even let him put on his clothes before they took him to jail.
The anonymous Miami-Dade resident and nineteen other men and women around the state were arrested by the new election police created in late April by Florida’s ultrareactionary governor Ron DeSantis. Their crime was voting.
That’s it. They voted in the last election even though they were barred from doing so by Florida’s antidemocratic laws. An armed SWAT team arrived with a helicopter at 6 AM to drag this man to jail in his underwear because he voted.
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