All the other rights are going to be protected only if women have the right to vote.
Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
I think without question, though, from a legal standpoint here, we realize that this particular law has a disparate impact on African-Americans.
You had written a guest column for one of the newspapers last year when this thing started happening in the press about the Volusia County High School teacher, and you said you saw the new law as so egregious that you felt you had to bring…
I think what you are going to see painted is a picture showing that certain groups, in fact, are being excluded.
Thus, we had early voting, and thus, the old absentee ballot where you actually had to swear that you were going to be absent on the day of voting, that was changed to vote by mail.





