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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.

The latest data shows that the percentage of registered voters who turned out for this election was the highest in a generation. However, there were fewer total voters compared to 2020. Florida’s population has grown in the last four years, so why hasn’t the number of registered voters increased?

With multiple races, referendums and questions on ballots, WLRN compiled endorsements from newspapers, unions and interest groups into a one-stop guide for voters in Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach counties.

DeSantis issued an executive order allowing supervisors of elections in Milton-affected counties to make changes such as consolidating polling sites and making it easier for displaced voters to obtain mail-in ballots.

The plaintiffs say the problem is particularly acute in Miami-Dade, Broward, Duval, and Orange counties, which have large Black populations.