In a major win for election integrity, a district court judge dismissed a lawsuit on Monday filed by leftist groups falsely claiming Florida’s voter registration process violates federal law.
Writing for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Judge Allen Winsor granted a motion to dismiss Democrats’ case contending Florida’s requirement that residents provide an original or “wet” signature when registering to vote violates provisions of the Civil Rights Act. Under Florida law, state residents are mandated to provide “either an original signature or a digital signature that the Department of Highway Safety transmitted” when registering to vote. As noted by the court, the signature signifies an affirmation by each registrant that the information he or she provided is factually correct.
Defendants in the case included Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd and Florida’s 67 supervisors of elections. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee and Pasco County GOP intervened on behalf of said defendants and RITE PAC, an election integrity group, submitted a brief pushing back against a filing from the Biden Department of Justice.
As The Federalist previously reported, the DOJ filed a “statement of interest” earlier this year urging the court to dismiss the interveners’ motion to dismiss.
In his Monday ruling, Winsor specifically noted how the plaintiffs — which included left-wing organizations such as Vote.org and the NAACP — failed to provide evidence “showing that the wet-signature requirement is immaterial.”
“Plaintiffs’ entire premise is that a copied, faxed, or otherwise non-original signature is equal in
