Here we go again. Like the dogwoods that bloom every spring in Tallahassee, the Legislature’s annual obsession with making it harder to vote has returned — just as we all knew it would.
It isn’t pretty. It isn’t necessary. And it isn’t right.
The Senate sprang a 98-page elections bill on the public with scant 24 hours notice before a recent committee hearing. Naturally, concerned citizens who traveled to Tallahassee from throughout the state had one minute to testify. As some raced through prepared remarks, they sounded like the old Federal Express commercial.