G. K. Butterfield: “I am also concerned with the potential for many unintended consequences like many of those raised in the Op Ed written…”

Floridians deserve free and fair elections, not more restrictions on access to the ballot.

In conclusion, our democracy works best when every voter can make their voice heard.

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.