In Florida elections, felons face 11th hour removal from voting rolls

The Florida Democratic Party, which obtained the letters sent to election supervisors, said the DeSantis administration's action "to purge voter rolls in the 11th hour before an election in which ... Read More

Florida arrested felons for election fraud. It also gave them voter IDs.

But the state had no central database to check whether a felon owed fees, and by May 2020, the department had a backlog of 85,000 people it needed to verify and potentially remove, Division of ... Read More

Year-by-year look at Florida's increasingly restrictive election, voter ...

But despite that, the Florida Legislature has passed new, more restrictive election laws every year since up to 2024. Supporters call the changes necessary to add security and reinspire confidence ... Read More

Florida Republicans poised to make more changes to election laws

Florida Republicans poised to make more changes to election laws While Florida has seen its last two elections run without any major problems, this marks the third year in a row that legislators ... Read More

Florida election, voter registration, drop box laws tighter every year

Here's what changed. 2021: Elections bill takes aim at mail-in voting, drop boxes. In 2020, a record 14.4 million voters turned out for the Nov. 3 general election with 44% (4.6 million) of ... Read More

Florida felon voting battle may get 'clarity' from elections proposal

Desmond Meade, executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition who helped advocate for the 2018 constitutional amendment, called the proposal a “step forward” by the state. Read More

Can felons vote in Florida? Yes, here's what to know

The remaining 1,358,338 vote-by-mail ballots have until polls close at 7 p.m. on Aug. 20 to cast their vote, whether by dropping it off in person at a drop box or ensuring the Supervisor of ... Read More

Year-by-year look at Florida's increasingly restrictive election, voter ...

By the end of 2023, over a million people were declared inactive in Florida's voter rolls. The voters so marked were overwhelmingly Democrat and independent voters , according to state records. Read More