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The daily rundown Between Saturday and Sunday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 3,699 (nearly 0.2 percent), to 1,976,808; active hospitalizations went down by 176 (nearly 5.8 percent), to 2,868; deaths rose by 30, to 32,255; 4,204,186 Floridians have had at least one dose of a vaccine.
Bumpy New Florida Democratic Party chair Manny Diaz is running into some turbulence.
Into the mire The state executive committee spent up to two hours on Saturday debating how and whether to wade into a growing controversy over the Biden administration’s decision to reopen a migrant detention center in Homestead that had been used to house children. This is the same center that came under withering criticism by Democrats when the Trump administration was using it. Kamala Harris, who was as presidential candidate at the time, was among those who went to the center to lash out at Trump immigration policies.
As Republican activists across the country work to enact new voting rules being touted by supporters as election integrity measures and slammed by critics as voter suppression, Sarasota lawmaker Joe Gruters is square in the middle of the nationwide battle.
The bill advanced, but Republican lawmakers on the committee weren’t jumping up to sing its praises.
Florida ran a smooth election in 2020, so it is hard to justify big changes.
Lake County Supervisor of Elections Alan Hays, known as one of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate when he served in the Legislature, slammed the legislation, saying it “played havoc with the lives of 1.5 million Floridians” who used mail ballot drop boxes in 2020.
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Feb 28, 2021 7:48 PM
There could be at least three days of in-person early-voting in Kentucky as soon as the 2022 elections and local legislators support the legislation to that effect that passed the House last week.
The three days of no-excuse early voting would include a Saturday, as required in House Bill 574 and state Senator Whitney Westerfield says he warmed up to supporting early voting after seeing increased turnout last year.
The Senate will likely begin considering the legislation this week with a committee hearing.
Representative Walker Thomas of Hopkinsville says the House also voted to create an Election Integrity Committee to be sure all elections are fair.
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