Monthly Meeting

About Darryl Paulson

Professor Paulson’s specialty is Florida and Southern Politics and political elections. He’s been interviewed over 7,000 times by the print and broadcast media including every major newspaper and news magazine in the nation, as well as numerous international publications. He has testified in numerous court cases as an expert witness, mostly in voting rights cases, and recently testified in Federal District Court in Tallahassee in May, 2014 in Romo v. Detzner, a challenge to the Florida legislature reapportionment and the Fair Districts constitutional amendment recently approved by Florida voters. He was hired as an expert witness by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice out of Durham, NC to make sure the rights of Florida's minority voters were protected. He also testified in Tallahassee in 2001 at the request of the US Commission on Civil Rights in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election on "Alleged Election Irregularities in the Aftermath of the 2000 Florida Presidential Election."

 For The Greater Pinellas Democratic Club’s August 2026 meeting Professor Paulson will address:  Gerrymandering, Reapportionment and Congressional District Lines.  This is the “hot topic” leading into the 2026 elections and he has a great deal of experience in this area.  

Dr. Paulson has been hired a number of times by the Florida and National NAACP as their expert witness in state and federal court cases concerning voting rights and reapportionment cases in Florida.  He was the expert witness in federal court in the 1992 case that fundamentally altered Black congressional representation in Florida.

He will cover the history of voter suppression over the last 116 years and the role both parties played in Black voter discrimination.

You will find it informative and shockingly interesting. No Party is innocent.     

       This is the story about political transformation in Florida and the lengths people will go to gain political power.