In the wake of the latest election debacle here in Florida, Republican lawmakers have made statements that they're ready to address some inequities that might have been exacerbated by the passage of the controversial election reform bill 1355 in the spring of 2011. The major provision of that bill reduced the number of early voting days from 14 to 8, even though GOP lawmakers never really made a convincing argument about why that needed to be enacted.
Democrats have spoken out a lot since the election, with a return to 14 days of early voting being a minimum of what they want to see enacted. So it's fair to say they were completely underwhelmed to hear and see the first bill on election reform filed today by Miami Republican state Senator Miguel Diaz de la Portilla.
His bill would expand early voting from 8 days all the way to....9.
But one of those days would be the Sunday before the election, a day that was removed for the 2012 voting cycle in Florida.
