I don't need to tell you that Hurricane Matthew is a monster storm. It cut a path of terrible destruction through the Caribbean, particularly Haiti. The death toll there is surging into the hundreds. Then it pummeled Florida, where President Obama declared a state of emergency on Thursday. Governor Rick Scott has refused to extend the voter registration deadline of October 11th, a ploy to ensure that many potential voters never make it to the polls.
Rick Scott is also the chairman of Donald Trump's Super PAC. He is playing partisan politics with our democracy. Rick Scott knows that a month away from the election is a crucial time for voters to register—in 2012, 50,000 Floridians registered in the five days before the deadline. He knows that millennials, blacks, and Latinos are registering in record numbers this year, and he's clearly willing to use this disaster to suppress their vote. Meanwhile, Georgia and South Carolina have both extended the deadlines because of Hurricane Matthew.
Tell Gov. Rick Scott: Extend the Florida voter registration deadline until after the Hurricane Matthew emergency is over.
Over 2.5 million Floridians were ordered to evacuate their homes. “There are no excuses, you need to leave,” Scott said in a press conference Thursday morning. “This storm will kill you.” In this case, he was doing his job to serve the people of Florida, regardless of color, creed, or politics.
Later that day, Scott refused to extend Florida’s voter registration deadline, which is Tuesday, October 11th. “I’m not going to extend it,” he declared. “Everybody’s had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote, early voting and absentee voting, so I don’t intend to make any changes.”

Recent voter registration numbers in Florida have been favoring Democrats by 8 to 1. Rick Scott knows what he's doing.
This is straight-up voter disenfranchisement of the worst kind. Sign the Climate Hawks Vote petition to demand Rick Scott extend the voter registration deadline.
Hurricane Matthew is a man-made disaster, fueled by the hundreds of billions of tons of carbon pollution added to our atmosphere and oceans by the burning of fossil fuels. The seas are hotter than ever before, providing the energy for the storm’s ferocity, and the seas are higher, leading to killer storm surge. Scott has banned his government from using the words “climate change,” but man-made climate change is here, and we have to confront it.
With his deliberate inaction, Scott is compounding the disaster for the people of Florida. This is a stark reminder of how climate injustice and racial injustice are intertwined. Climate disasters impact people of color the most—and so does voter disenfranchisement. This is both.
We’ve seen this story before. In 2000, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was Florida chairwoman for George W. Bush’s campaign, and oversaw the state’s racist voter purge and its wrecked election. As climate voters and as Americans, we can’t let this happen again.

We deserve a government that works to protect all the people in the path of Hurricane Matthew — and that includes protecting our right to vote.

Standard operating procedure for Florida, I suppose. I'm also not the least bit surprised that ol' Voldemort happens to chair Trumpy Boy's Super PAC. This election cycle is truly a clusterfuck, folks. It seems neither party wants people to vote. This is 2000 all over again....nah, this is 2000 on steroids. I suspect this year will make 2000 look legit by comparison. Besides, Billary's already won anyway.

Fuck Voldemort. Fuck Trumpy Boy. Fuck Billary.

See ya around,

Aspie