(It has also blocked Florida's decision to curtail early voting and third-party registration drives).
"It sets an important precedent in Florida and nationally that gives a strong level of protection for third-party registration groups," Ms. Macnab said.
"Over the last 20 years, we have seen Florida grow quite rapidly, and we have such a mix of populations," said State Representative Dennis K. Baxley, the Florida Republican who wrote the law to tighten third-party registration here.
Plenty of other obstacles to voter registration and participation remain, for example in Florida where third-party registration drives have all but ceased because of a Republican-backed law passed in 2011.
Registration accuracy was verified by repeat registration with a third-party registration software system.
Thus, to facilitate transfer, transaction, and circulation, we need to introduce a third-party registration, settlement, and trading system with high credibility and cost efficiency.
For populations that have statistically been harder to mobilize and turnout on Election Day, the attack has been mounted on third-party registration efforts and community efforts like "Souls to the Polls" that were overwhelmingly successful in Florida.
Third party efforts - such as those run by the League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote, the NAACP, Mi Familia Vota, and every other third-party registration groups -- are essential to ensure we close this gap.
Instead, they have also passed a wide array of measures aimed at lowering turnout among Democratic-leaning constituencies: strict voter ID requirements, proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration, restrictions on third-party registration drives, bars on same-day registration, cutbacks to early voting, etc.
Maine recently joined the states that have eliminated same day voter registration, and Florida and at least six other states have introduced legislation making it harder for independent, third- party registration groups to help these voters participate in our democracy.
