When James Webb Baker Jr. read about Gov. Rick Scott’s efforts to purge voter registration roles of ineligible voters, he got mad.
To the Seattle engineer, Republican officials in Florida were trying to suppress turnout by Democrat-leaning Hispanic voters through letters sent by election officials questioning the recipients’ eligibility to vote.
So Baker created his own copycat letters and sent them to Republican Party donors in Florida, a violation of the law.
Now, Baker has lost his own right to vote for the next three years.