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Voters prepare to turn in their mail-in ballots on Oct. 6, 2020, at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department in Doral, Fla. | AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
Florida Legislature approves controversial restrictions on voting
TALLAHASSEE Florida’s Republican-led Legislature in an attempt to respond to unfounded complaints about voter fraud following the 2020 presidential election on Thursday adopted new voting restrictions and placed limits on how local officials run elections.
The legislation now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign the bill ahead of what could be an expensive and bitterly-fought 2022 re-election campaign.
While lawmakers removed many of the more stringent restrictions after weeks of fierce debate, the House and Senate still approved the bill (SB 90) largely along party lines. Democrats called the measure unnecessary and said it was more about responding to the “big lie” of voter fraud pushed by former Preside
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End zone Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made it clear before a national audience late Thursday night that he is gearing up to celebrate yet another successful 60-day session of the Florida Legislature.
Florida commemorated Confederate Memorial Day on Monday by moving one step closer to passage of a bill that critics say will disproportionately restrict the ballots of Black voters in the state.
The state is one of five in the country that still officially observes as a holiday the April 26, 1865 surrender at Bennett Place, North Carolina, of the last large field army of the Confederate forces that fought to destroy the United States and maintain slavery. This year, Florida marked the occasion with passage in the state Senate of a controversial measure that would restrict mail-in ballots and drop-box hours, make it illegal to give water to voters in line, and allow partisan poll observers to object to votes during the ballot count.
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