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Teacher: No way to comply with new Fla. voting law
Submitted by Special on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 1:10pm.
A teacher who may become the first person fined for violating Florida's new Republican-sponsored election law says there's no way she could have complied with a provision on voter registration drives even if she had known about it.
Dawn Quarles faces a potential $1,000 fine for allegedly turning in her students' voter registration applications more than 48 hours after they were signed. The old deadline had been 10 days.
"That's ridiculous, that's crazy," Quarles said in a telephone interview Monday night. "I don't know about it, so how can I abide by it?"
Quarles teaches government at Pace High School in the western Florida Panhandle, which is solid GOP territory.
She acknowledged erring in the past but said this year she made sure to get her students' applications turned in within 10 days, not realizing the time limit had been shortened.
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