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Less than a year before the 2024 elections, Florida is still brawling over DeSantis' redistricting plan
‘A historically performing benchmark district for Black voters was not just diminished — it was eliminated,’ read the dissent, in part.
By Jim Saunders, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Elections, redistricting, Florida District 5, proportional representation, voting rights, DeSantis
Beyoncé's BeyGOOD Foundation awards grant to Orlando voting-rights group Equal Ground
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: Orlando Area News, Elections + Politics, Beyoncé, BeyGOOD, Equal Ground, voting rights, election equality
Florida secretary of state touts new voting restrictions as ‘gold standard’ of ‘election integrity’
Critics argue the changes were designed to suppress voting by minorities and Democrats.
By Jim Turner, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Cord Byrd, election integrity, voting rights, vote by mail, ballot drop boxes, voter rolls
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrates arrests of felons who allegedly voted: 'This is the opening salvo'
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, voting, felons, rights, voting rights, Ron DeSantis, elections, police
A government official helped 10 Florida men with felony convictions register to vote
Now they’ve been charged with fraud, and in some cases returned to lockup, because prosecutors say they voted illegally
By Bianca Fortis, ProPublica
Tags: Orlando Area News, Elections + Politics, Amendment 4, disenfranchisement, returning citizens, voting rights
Federal appeals court will decide constitutionality of Florida elections law in September
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Florida, elections, voting rights, Ron DeSantis, lawsuits, courts
Florida appeals court reinstates state's restrictions on voting over allegations that it discriminates against Black voters
By Dara Kam, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Florida, voting, vote-by-mail, Ron DeSantis, Republicans, voting rights
Alachua County voter fraud case pulls the mask off of Florida Republicans' walk-back of felon voting rights
By Carolina Ilvento and Alexander Lugo, Fresh Take Florida
Tags: Orlando Area News, Elections + Politics, voting, voting rights, felons, Alachua County
University of Florida backs off from attempt to control professors' freedom to testify
By Ryan Dailey, NSF
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, Gainesville, education, First Amendment, Gators, voting rights
Orlando readers speak out on voting rights, abolishing the filibuster
By Orlando Weekly readers
Tags: First Words, letters to the editor, filibuster, voting rights
Florida's voter suppression laws challenged by several lawsuits
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, voting rights, voters, SB 90, Ron DeSantis, NAACP
Congress made Juneteenth a holiday, but it won’t lift a finger to protect Black voting rights
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Tags: Columns, Juneteenth holiday, John Lewis Voting Rights Act, How Democracies Die, filibuster, voting access, voting rights
Florida's voting restriction law faces new legal challenges from Southern Poverty Law Center, others
Tags: Bloggytown, elections, Florida, lawsuits, Ron DeSantis, Southern Poverty Law Center, GOP, Republicans, voting rights
Florida had one of the smoothest elections of 2020, so why do our GOP leaders want to restrict voting by mail?
By The News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, voting, vote by mail, ballots, voting rights
Felons with outstanding court debts are to be removed from voting rolls, state elections officials announced Friday
Tags: Bloggytown, election 2020, voting rights, rights restoration, voter intimidation, felons voting rights, amendment 4
Florida's landmark voting rights amendment was gutted by the Legislature
Only a small percentage of returning felons will be able to vote, and some may face prosecution if they do
By Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor, ProPublica
Tags: News, voting rights, voter registration, felons rights, rights restoration, Florida, FRRC
Ashley Moody wants the FDLE to investigate Bloomberg's $16M donation to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, FFRC, voting rights, rights restoration, returning citizens, felons, restitution, franchise, suffrage, Ashley Moody, Mike Bloomberg
This week, readers were pro-ranked choice voting, anti-LGBTQ+ blood donation
Letters to the editor
Sent by Orlando Weekly readers
Tags: First Words, opinion, letters to the editor, election, voting rights, blood donation
Florida judge questions constitutionality of Amendment 4, restoration of rights could be threatened
By Dara Kam
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, restoration of rights, felons, voting rights, Amendment 4
New elections law 'a throwback to Jim Crow-era policies,' say voting rights advocates
Tags: Bloggytown, voting rights, disenfranchisement, florida amendment 4, ballot cure, signature cure, jim crow, rights restoration
1.5 million ex-felons can now vote in Florida
By Colin Wolf
Tags: Bloggytown, Amendment 4, ex-felons, voting rights
Gov. Rick Scott scrambles to meet with Florida Cabinet members on felons' rights battle
Tags: Bloggytown, Gov. Rick Scott, Board of Executive Clemency, Florida felons, felons' rights, voting rights, Florida midterms 2018
Floridians favor the popular vote over the Electoral College, poll says
By Xander Peters
Tags: Bloggytown, Electoral College, Florida voters, voting rights, popular vote, 2018 midterm elections, Florida Atlantic University, League of Women Voters of Florida
Florida lawmaker proposes bill that would make it easier for felons to regain rights
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida Legislature, Rep. Cord Byrd, voting rights, Second Amendment, House Bill 903
You should sign this petition to restore the voting rights to 1.7 million Florida residents
Tags: Bloggytown, voting rights, civil rights
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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill to end squatters' rights, increase penalties
Moody Mills 50 absinthe house Death in the Afternoon hits the bull's-eye
By Faiyaz Kara
Orange County taxpayers will have to cover OnePulse’s unpaid property tax bill
By McKenna Schueler
As opening day for the highly anticipated Epic Universe gets closer and closer, Universal Orlando continues to share information about what will…
By Alexandra Sullivan
The waterfront mansion formerly home to DJ Khaled is now on the market, and it comes with some wild amenities. The Grammy-winning…
By Chloe Greenberg
The home of "The Suntan King" has finally found a new owner. Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion founder Ron Rice passed away at…
Orlando Amphitheater on Saturday hosted Music Fest ORL, an outdoor concert set to feature a number of big names in the hip-hop…
By Matt Keller Lehman
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