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Democratic Chair Nikki Fried says the party will ‘continue the conversation’ about pushing opening primaries to independent voters.

Supervisors of elections throughout Florida have until Thursday to send vote-by-mail ballots to domestic voters who have requested them in advance of the Aug. 18 primary elections.

Will moving elections from April to November save money and bring more voters to the polls, or let local issues get overshadowed by ‘toxic’ politics in Washington? City Commissioners vehemently disagree, and it’s time for voters to have their say.

Two coalitions of advocacy groups immediately filed separate suits over the new Florida law on Wednesday.

The House on Thursday passed a bill (HB 991) on a 77-28 vote along party lines, imposing new identification requirements on voters, but it doesn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2027.

The major election bill being pushed by Florida Republicans in the Legislature this session would require proof of American citizenship to register to vote, similar to federal legislation advocated by President Trump and Republicans in Congress.

Only a handful of states now require that voters provide a document proving their US citizenship to register to vote.

Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

Jessica Lowe-Minor, the president of the League of Women Voters of Florida is warning state legislators not to embark on a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan, saying it's unprecedented and goes against the 2010 “Fair Districts” constitutional amendment.

Lawyers for voter advocacy groups and campaigns for Medicaid expansion and recreational marijuana appeared before a federal judge in Tallahassee Tuesday. It is their latest attempt to carve away at a law that they argue unconstitutionally hamstrings citizens’ abilities to amend Florida’s constitution.

The number of states considering bills related to proof of citizenship for voting tripled from 2023 to this year. Republicans in Wyoming passed their own proof-of-citizenship legislation, but similar measures have stalled or failed in multiple GOP-led states, including Florida, Missouri, Texas and Utah.

Desmond Meade, a prominent voting rights activist and president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, was honored with a street renaming ceremony.