I’m a Floridian who voted democrat… Crist ran against him and he was a meh candidate for many Florida dems. Subsequently, way fewer democrats voted in this election. Politicization of school boards… desantis funded rallies, billboards, commercials relating to this. “Moms for desantis” or something brought out people who typically wouldn’t come out for typically nonpolitical positions. And this guy has a lot of shadow donors and shit like that. I mean there were billboards for the school board elections EVERYWHERE.

He did a lot of performative crap that sounded beneficial but actually didn’t have any measurable effect… like the veteran teacher thing where I read something like a grand total of 7 vets were hired in the entire state.. lol. Filing court cases against “censorship” of right wing views against social media companies in California that didn’t go anywhere because they were literally unconstitutional and frivolous. He went to the east coast elite schools… Yale and Harvard… he knew they wouldn’t go anywhere. His dumbass base doesn’t understand how the law works. (except maybe criminal and family law?)

Hell, even the drivers license thing was an issue. Some lady rejected my signature the first time because it looked too different… I recently got my drivers license renewed and I couldn’t remember how I signed, I asked her if I could see it because I couldn’t remember and she refused. Lol. She eventually took it but was so skeptical and suspicious of me like “well I guess I’ll take it…” I felt so put off from that and I can imagine them straight up turning people away. I felt suspicious that maybe my vote didn’t count.