The preliminary injunction prohibited the enforcement of the 100-yard provision on the primary preference date, March 13, 1984. The district court found that the state failed to show that the statute was a necessary or even reasonable way of ensuring order at the polls. Additionally, it found the statute overbroad and not drawn in the least restrictive manner. On March 27, 1984, the district court modified its March 5 preliminary injunction extending its prohibitions to “all municipal elections held throughout the state of Florida.” On July 19, 1984, the court permanently enjoined enforcement of
Fla.Stat.Ann. § 104.36 declaring it to be a restriction of speech and association lacking sufficient justification, overbroad, and not the least restrictive means to achieve the purpose of ensuring an orderly election process.