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4.6 million people voted for desantis, and 21 million people live in Florida. Less than a quarter of the people that live in the state voted him into office. It is deeply unfair to say "a lot of people voted him into office" because it ignores the people that are affected by this decision and either voted against it, can't do anything about it, or just didn't. I know you said most people don't vote at all but Florida isn't a monolith and it's really important to remember that when things like this negatively affect millions of people that either didn't want this to happen or had no say.
By these people not voting, we assume that they are OK with how things are going in their state. In which case, they asked for it.
You know kids are adversely affected by desantis's policy and cannot vote, right? just as a single example.
Theres only ~5 million kids in Florida - that still leaves about 16 million people who are eligible to vote who didn't.
1.4 million in florida have felony convictions, and a disproportionate number are minorities in florida. Then 1.8 million non-citizen immigrants in Florida, from Mexico or Cuba or other places in the Carribean. And that's not including the people that didn't vote because of local efforts of voter suppression, which is a nebulous number but still statistically significant.