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Today, Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar joined their Washington party bosses and voted to block legislation that would protect Floridians from harmful attacks on their right to vote.
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act is more important than ever. As Republican state lawmakers introduce hundreds of bills to suppress voters and pass dozens of laws that limit voters’ access to the ballot box, this bill would expand Floridians’ opportunities to vote and combat the GOP’s voter suppression crusade.
While Gimenez and Salazar voted with every other extremist Republican against putting a stop to the onslaught of Jim Crow-style voter suppression laws hurting voters, House Democrats fought to protect the American people’s most sacred right. And now more than ever, Floridians need those rights codified and guaranteed after Republicans in the state went after voting rights in 2020, codifying restrictive changes to election laws.
DCCC Spokesperson Abel Iraola
“It’s clear Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar think their party’s best way back to a majority is by suppressing the power of voters. If Carlos and Maria Elvira are too afraid of their own voters, they have no business representing them in Congress.”
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