Ocala Sen. Dennis Baxley calls the bill guardrails against potential problems.
State Sen. Dennis Baxley amended his controversial elections bill – SB 90 – on Wednesday at a meeting of the Rules Committee.
It allows drop boxes now at some locations for limited hours and requires a pen-to-paper signature a so-called “wet” signature for voter verification. It also outlaws giving anything including food or water to people within 150 feet of a polling place.
The Ocala Republican presents the bill which also restricts vote-by-mail requests as a way to secure the ballot and build voter confidence following a successful election in 2020.
Baxley calls it “guardrails” against potential problems.
DeSantis wants votersâ signatures to match. Would his pass the test?
If the Florida governor gets his way, mail-in ballot signatures would have to match the most recent signature on file with the state. His own signature history shows how autographs evolve.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signature has varied over the years. Here s how he has signed official documents from 2008 to 2021. [ ASSOCIATED PRESS | Photo illustration by ASHLEY DYE | Times ]
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Ronald DeSantis had just turned 30 when the up-and-coming prosecutor sent a Mayport Navy sailor to prison for six years on child pornography charges. DeSantisâ signature on the 2008 plea agreement was crisp and elegant: A sharp âRâ to start; a stately âDâ for Dion, his middle name; and âDeSantisâ written with an artistic flourish.
Ballot law update heads to final House panel
A bill House Republicans say would improve election security has passed its penultimate committee.
The House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines to advance that priority legislation (
HB 7041), carried by Spring Hill Republican Rep.
Blaise Ingoglia.
Ingoglia has said it would keep elections offices from writing their own rules for monitoring drop boxes and handling ballots.
The bill comes despite Republicans, including Gov.
Ron DeSantis, touting Florida’s 2020 election cycle as
one of the smoothest and most secure in recent history. Ingoglia helped spearhead the state’s original drop box law, first used during the 2020 election cycle.
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TALLAHASSEE â In an attempt to âput consumers in the driverâs seatâ of their data privacy, Florida legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers and sell it to data brokers.
Modeled after a California law that last year became the strongest data privacy law in the country, SB 1734 creates the Florida Privacy Protection Act and requires businesses to tell consumers what information theyâve collected and how theyâre going to use it. The bill requires any company that collects and sells consumer information to establish a button on its website to allow consumers to opt out of allowing the company to sell the information
California-style data privacy law gets bipartisan support in Florida Legislature Mary Ellen Klas, The Miami Herald
Apr. 7 TALLAHASSEE In an attempt to put consumers in the driver s seat of their data privacy, Florida legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers and sell it to data brokers.
Modeled after a California law that last year became the strongest data privacy law in the country, SB 1734 creates the Florida Privacy Protection Act and requires businesses to tell consumers what information they ve collected and how they re going to use it. The bill requires any company that collects and sells consumer information to establish a button on its website to allow consumers to opt out of allowing the company to sell the information it has collected about them.