FL Democrats Plan Voter Registration Rallies After Charlottesville Riot
The violent confrontation in Charlottesville and its aftermath have galvanized elected leaders on both sides of the aisle. Florida Democrats are planning voter registration rallies in response.
View ArticleFelons' Voting Rights Activists Want 1 Million Petitions
Florida’s campaign to restore voting rights to felons is gathering national media attention, and national financing. Now activists are trying to focus that energy to get the proposed constitutional...
View ArticleOnline Voter Registration Starts In Florida
On Sunday, Florida will join 35 other states in offering online voter registration to its residents.
View ArticleState GOP Fined; Democrats Could Face Sanctions
State officials this month levied a $110,000 fine against the Republican Party of Florida. The party turned in a campaign finance report dealing with a South Florida House race 11 days late.
View ArticleVeteran ID, Voter Info Measures One Stop From House Floor
The official start of the 2018 legislative session may be months off, but some measures are already nearing the home stretch. A veteran’s ID measure and a bill allowing Florida to share voter...
View ArticleVeterans' Voting Rights
There are thousands of veterans among the more than 1.6 million Floridians who have lost the right to vote because of past felony convictions. The ACLU of Florida is leading a push to place a proposed...
View ArticleTwo CRC Proposals Tackling Felon Voting Rights Pass
Florida Felons have been fighting for the right to vote for years now, and while a grassroots petition movement within the state has spurred interest in the issue, two proposals in the Constitutional...
View ArticleOpen Florida Primary Proposal Debated
An effort to let voters decide if they want open primary elections advanced Friday, but moving to such a “top-two” system continued to draw questions from members of the state Constitution Revision...
View ArticleFlorida May Share Voter Information With Other States
Florida could start sharing voter information to make sure people aren't registered in other states under a bill approved by the Florida House.
View ArticleLawmakers Debate Expansion Of Digital Voting, Tallying Machines
Florida lawmakers want to expand the use of digital voting and tallying machines. Many of the state’s election managers are behind the plan . But critics don’t want to leave the paper ballot behind.
View ArticleFlorida Governor Signs Bill To Share Voter Information
Florida will start sharing voter information to make sure people aren't registered in other states.
View ArticleJudge Orders Gov. Scott, Cabinet To Create System To Restore Felons’ Voting...
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Gov. Rick Scott and the three elected Cabinet members to create a new voting rights restoration process for convicted felons by April 26. U.S. District Judge Mark...
View ArticleGov. Scott Appeals Ruling On Voting Rights For Felons
Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on Wednesday continued battling a judges ruling that would require the state to overhaul the controversial process for restoring ex-felons voting rights, taking...
View ArticleVoting Rights Rally Led By Rev. Al Sharpton Draws Hundreds To Capitol Lawn
As an appellate court reviews an appeal by Governor Rick Scott and his cabinet in the battle for a new rights restoration scheme for felons, protesters rallied at the Capitol Thursday. Civil rights...
View ArticleSupervisors Focus On Security Ahead Of Fall Elections
Supervisors of elections throughout Florida are preparing for the upcoming election season, with the secruity of the voting process being a top priority.
View ArticleGov. Scott Orders Florida Officials To Beef Up Security Of Voting Systems
Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday that federal funds will be used after all to beef up security for the state's voting systems in time for November's elections.
View ArticleElections Officials Worry A Longer Ballot Could Lead To Longer Lines
The 2012 general election in Florida had some of the longest voting lines in recent memory.
View ArticleGun-Reform Activists Spur Voter Registration At High Schools
Students at more than 1,000 schools across the country are registering young voters in lunchrooms, hallways and even at upcoming graduation ceremonies in a week of activism aimed at electing lawmakers...
View ArticleJudge Asked To Lift Florida's Campus Ban On Early Voting
A Florida voting rights group is asking a federal judge to let college campuses be used for early voting sites in this year's elections.
View ArticleJudge Hears Arguments In College Early Voting Sites Case
Florida elections officials were wrong to block on-campus early voting sites in Gainesville and Tallahassee, lawyers for the League of Women Voters of Florida told a federal judge Monday.
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