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Palm Beach County may be turning majority Republican red sooner rather than later, according to an analysis of voter registration data by Mi Vecinos, an influential Florida-based group that mobilizes Latino voters.

A bill to impose heightened requirements for first-time voters, including mandating presentation of documents such as a U.S. passport or birth certificate — received its first hearing in this year’s legislative session and was approved by a first committee. Critics contend the bill will end up throwing eligible U.S. citizens off the voter rolls.

More than 2 1/2 years after Florida dropped its association with a bipartisan national voter database, Secretary of State Cord Byrd said Wednesday that the state has formed agreements with “multiple states” to share that voter information.

The latest voter rolls in the county now show 464,370 registered Republicans, or 34% of voters, 440,790 Democrats, or 32.27%. Independent and third-party voters together number 460,783, or 33.7%. Those numbers come via Michael Pruser, the director of data science with Decision Desk HQ.

Voter registration groups in Florida are helping fewer citizens sign up to cast an elections ballot, nearly a year after increased penalties for rules violations went into effect.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman robocalled roughly 85,000 voters across five states, falsely telling them that voting by mail would risk "giving your private information to the man."

After Republicans won big in Florida, Democrats and the groups that organize for them are reckoning with what went so red in the country's largest swing state.

The Republican swing was interpreted as a sign of support among the region's Hispanic voters for Gov. Ron DeSantis and a lack of enthusiasm for his Democratic challenger, Rep. Charlie Crist.

In Iowa's competitive 3rd Congressional District, candidates and voters are talking about the same issues as those everywhere else. That's part of a long-growing pattern.

Voters in Missouri, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Maryland will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana. Nineteen states and D.C. have approved adult cannabis possession and consumption.

As the campaign season kicks off, political scientist Susan MacManus talks with WFSU's Margie Menzel about whether Florida is still a swing state and which issues could roil the upcoming elections.

These midterms, younger voters have soured on the Democratic Party. Party leaders see the threat to abortion rights as an opportunity to rebuild the multigenerational coalition that elected Joe Biden.