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A bill that would make it more difficult for citizens to get constitutional amendments on the ballot is advancing in the Florida Senate and has already passed in the House. These are some of the constitutional changes Florida has today thanks to ballot initiatives.

Ten dancers abandoned the National Ballet of Cuba while in Puerto Rico in March with six of them later arriving in Miami, according to Eriberto Jimenez, the artistic director of CCBM. Four will dance in the May 11 program.

Republicans in some states are pushing to count ballots the old-fashioned way — which experts say would bring a level of chaos to elections not seen in decades.

U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor issued an 18-page ruling Wednesday that included a permanent injunction against the $3,000 contribution limit, which passed in 2021 and was revised this year. The limit was part of long-running efforts by Republican leaders to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives to amend the state Constitution.

Conservationists have a five-amendment rights of nature ballot drive going on right now. This is the first in a series looking at each of the rights of nature amendments. Today's story is about the Stop New Toll Roads amendment.

A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a ruling that upheld a decades-old Florida law that determines how candidates are listed on election ballots, nailing down a win for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and Republican groups.

The organizations are seeking a rehearing after a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month rejected the challenge, finding, in part, that the case involves “political questions” that cannot be resolved by judges.

Attorneys for Democratic plaintiffs in the case announced Tuesday an agreement to temporarily halt the dispute involving elections supervisors in Broward, Orange, Lee, Duval, Hillsborough, Palm Beach, Pinellas and Miami-Dade counties. The announcement came after the supervisors last week filed a notice of appeal following a Leon County circuit judge’s refusal to dismiss the lawsuit.

If you voted provisionally on Election Day, you have until 5 p.m. today to prove you were eligible to vote and have your vote counted.Provisional votes…

In a printing plant just west of Miami International Airport, every second counts: It means three more ballots ready for the Nov. 6 election.From 6 a.m.…

The last thing senior paralegal Karen Leicht ever imagined was that she would serve three years in prison for a felony charge.“It is a huge skeleton in…

With just a few days left before ballots for November’s election have to be finalized and printed, an initiative to curb the influence of wealthy donors…