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Studies indicate the amendment could "dilute Black-majority districts" and count "GOP and non-affiliated white votes."
There are questions as to why the organization replaced officers and changed its title.
U.S. Sen. Blackburn is one of two Republican women on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
More than 90 percent of people who commented on proposed construction of three massive toll roads through rural Florida oppose the plan.
Tempers flared and tensions were evident Tuesday, in the latest chapter of the desultory, dangerous circus that is DeSantis and Trump.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett dodged detailed questions on landmark abortion cases that ensure women can have access to an abortion.
Constitutional Amendment 3 — which promises to tear down Florida’s primaries and build them anew — is the target of a court challenge.
In their early 50s, Lori Geist and Janette Wagner have been married for five years; could Barrett be coming for them?
Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate Harris accurately called the hearing "an illegitimate process."
Providing voters with information about the nuts and bolts of the vote-counting process is the best antiseptic against fears.
No-Mask DeSantis spewed the usual hackneyed, inaccurate attacks on Democrats, and much of the same tripe that emanates from Trump's mouth.
The judge's action follows a crash that rendered the state’s online voter registration system inaccessible.
Trump's racist, unconstitutional, mendacious attempts to disenfranchise Black voters assault our democracy.
Barrett, with an eye on destroying Roe v. Wade as well as human rights, will face the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Monday.
Republicans will insidiously stop at nothing to keep the disenfranchised from voting. The fourth in a series.
A federal judge said he would decide whether to order the state to reopen voter registration to compensate for an hours-long crash Monday.
Democrat Joe Biden leads Trump by six points among likely Florida voters in a St. Leo University poll released Wednesday.
There is no evidence, despite Republican claims to the contrary, that mail-in ballots are rife with voting fraud.
The Florida Public Service Commission, which regulates Florida’s largest utility companies, voted Tuesday to deny an emergency petition.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismantled one of the pillars of voting rights in America. With Barrett as a nominee, human rights are threatened.