https://www.democracydocket.com/news/three-trial-takeaways-floridas-voter-suppression-law/
1. Florida’s elections officials don’t want S.B. 90. The new restrictions make their jobs unnecessarily harder.
2. Don’t forget — voter suppression laws are bad because they harm voters. There is a real impact on real people.
3. The GOP’s dominant voter fraud claims don’t find the same footing in the courtroom.
Throughout the trial, the state defendants continued to make implications that the civil and voting rights organizations challenging this law were committing various crimes. In response, the plaintiffs filed a motion to preclude the defendants from making such unfounded implications: “Defendants’ repeated insinuations of illegal or criminal conduct are inappropriate, offensive, and time-wasting. Such questions, and the answers they are attempting to solicit, are irrelevant.”
In this trial, the GOP defendants (and intervenors Republican National Committee and National Republican Senatorial Committee) continued their desperate search to find voter fraud where none exists. Plaintiff expert witnesses testified to the non-existence of such fraud, citing a conservative database that only identified 15 instances of possible fraud from the millions of votes cast in Florida between 2003 and 2020.