After dying unheard last Session, a revived bill by Tallahassee Democratic Rep. Allison Tant that would give teeth to Florida’s rules on party affiliation in elections just cleared its first House hurdle.

Members of the Government Operations Subcommittee voted unanimously for the measure ( HB 91 ), which aims to close a loophole in Florida law that today enables candidates to skirt requirements Florida has for partisan elections.

Florida law requires candidates to be registered as a member of the political party from which they seek nomination for a year before the beginning of qualifying for a given General Election.

But candidates have repeatedly skirted those rules, and courts haven’t consistently stopped them.

Tant said that today, it’s “not clear who has standing to is

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