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DeSantis Signs Law to Prevent Repeat of Ballot Fraud Behind Pro-Abortion Amendment

Calvin Freiburger : May 9, 2025  LifeSiteNews.com

"...It was truly disgusting, but unsurprising, to learn of the overwhelming amount of fraud and deception that the abortion industry perpetrated in order to collect the requisite number of signatures from Florida voters for its ghoulish abortion-until-birth state constitutional amendment." -Florida Voice for the Unborn Executive Director Andrew Shirvell

(Tallahassee, FL) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on May 2 a measure to strengthen the rules governing signature collection for ballot initiatives, to prevent future abuse of the kind that was alleged to be behind last year's failed attempt to liberalize the Sunshine State's abortion laws. (Image via Unsplash)

HB 1205 requires petition sponsors to certify that no felons or non-citizens are involved in collecting petitions, orders that petition forms include the full text of a proposed amendment and require full identifying information for signers, forbids non-residents from working as petition circulators, mandates state training for petition gatherers, shortens the deadline for delivering petitions to election supervisors, and more.

Those who sign the names of others or fill in missing information themselves are subject to fines of up to $5,000 per petition, and retaining a voter's personal information is now a third-degree felony.

"This should have been done in January but House leadership blocked it," DeSantis said. "Glad the Senate's stronger version prevailed against attempts by the House leadership to water the reforms down."

"Praise God!" said Florida Voice for the Unborn Executive Director Andrew Shirvell. "As a grassroots pro-life lobbying organization heavily involved in last November's victory over the abortion industry's proposed pro-abortion Amendment 4, Florida Voice for the Unborn was at the forefront of this year's lengthy legislative battle to reform the initiative petition process."

"It was truly disgusting, but unsurprising, to learn of the overwhelming amount of fraud and deception that the abortion industry perpetrated in order to collect the requisite number of signatures from Florida voters for its ghoulish abortion-until-birth state constitutional amendment," he added... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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