Oh, look. The mainstream media buried vital information to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. You see, he eased voting rules for three counties hit hardest by Hurricane Ian that asked for help. The counties just happen to lean Republican. The counties that lean Democrat said they would be just fine for the November election.
But Narrative > Everything else.
The Washington Post‘s Lori Rozsa got the ball rolling with her piece, DeSantis changes voting rules for some counties hit by Ian, sparking criticism:
More than 1 million voters in Charlotte, Sarasota and Lee counties will have more time to get to the polls for early voting in the upcoming general election and will have more ways to file a mail-in ballot under the order the Republican governor signed Wednesday.Some of the accommodations being offered run counter to recently enacted voting laws pushed by DeSantis and passed by the GOP-led state legislature. Among those laws is one that limits drop boxes, called “ballot intake stations” in the law.Under the order, elections supervisors in the three counties can set up new early-voting and drop-box sites. Vote-by-mail ballots can also be sent to an address other than where the voter is registered.“Tens of thousands of Floridians have been displaced, and today’s executive order fails to meet the moment and ensure voting access for all Florida voters,” Jasmine Burney-Clark, founder of the voter rights organization Equal Ground, said in a statement. “Instead, Governor DeSantis is politicizing a natural disaster.”
The Guardian‘s Gloria Oladipo regurgitated Rozsa’s piece. This is the one that received a lot of attention on social media.
Charlotte, Lee, and Sarasota are the only counties that made requests to the government. The other counties said they are okay with the November 8 election.
Thanks for showing your bias, guys. It never gets old.
You can tell these guys only read the headline, didn’t read enough to reach the buried lede or flat-out ignored it when they read the truth.
My goodness, this is not hard. If the Democratic counties asked for help and provisions, then DeSantis would grant their requests.s
I wish the officials in the counties would push back against the media and the voting rights groups. Then again, I know the officials have a lot on their hands right now.
Plus, even if they did, the media would not listen because it doesn’t fit with their narrative. It’s all about the narrative that Republicans don’t care about anyone and DeSantis is evil.
Bryan Griffin, DeSantis’s press secretary, has a handy list for Rozsa and other reporters who twisted the story to fit their narrative.
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