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Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Republican state lawmakers are backing down from plans to ban ballot drop boxes and to make it harder to request mail-in ballots, but that has not quelled widespread criticism of their efforts to make it harder to vote in the name of election integrity. A coalition of leading voting-rights and civil-rights organizations will convene on Thursday night in an online public hearing to discuss their concerns about the proposed election reforms and to hear from Florida voters. The forum is scheduled to include Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried; Miami-Dade Democratic Sen. Annette Taddeo, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections; and representatives of Equal Ground Action Fund, Disability Rights Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Black Voters Matter, All Voting is Local, and many others. ....
Advocacy groups to launch newspaper ads urging corporations to oppose anti-riot, voter suppression legislation Image via AP. Critics want Florida companies to stand up, like Coca-Cola and Delta did. A coalition of Black and progressive political action organizations are placing full-page ads in newspapers Sunday urging Florida’s corporate leaders to oppose Republicans’ anti-protest and voting legislation. The newspaper ads will appear in the Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Tallahassee Democrat, and Pensacola News Journal. They’ll urge the kind of corporate opposition and pressure that Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Major League Baseball brought against HB 1, which would strengthen government crackdowns on street protests, and ....
East Gainesville pastor joins Black clergymen to lobby against Florida Senate vote-by-mail bill State leaders believe Senate Bill 90 would make it harder for Black voters to cast ballots Photo by Aubrey Bocalan | The Independent Florida Alligator Florida lawmakers are looking to make revisions to vote-by-mail. But an East Gainesville pastor worries these revisions could be restrictive to voters in vulnerable communities. Senate Bill 90, filed by Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, would eliminate vote-by-mail drop boxes and make it so voters have to re-register for vote-by-mail ballots more frequently. “We see this past campaign as a stellar one, bringing out record numbers of people,” Karl Anderson, a 47-year-old senior pastor at Upper Room Ministri ....