Black Voters

Black voters are turning out to early voting at low rates in Florida.

Project 2025, the guidebook of presidential policy recommendations written by conservative activists, provides few details about its voting recommendations, making it hard to say how voting rights could be affected if the proposals were to be enacted.

Voting rights groups challenging the state congressional map want the Florida Supreme Court to reinstate a district that gave Black voters in one region the chance to elect their preferred candidate.

Equal Ground will launch a tour to promote its voter education and mobilization efforts on Saturday in Pinellas County with additional stops around the state.

The redrawn districts in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties were approved by legislators in 2022 and used in the election that November. They are being challenged by five residents.

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker denied the request from attorneys for Secretary of State Cord Byrd in a lawsuit challenging the 2023 law.

Saying he "appears to have a closed mind," the state has asked a federal judge to exit a case about the constitutionality of a 2023 Florida elections law.

Civil rights groups and local leaders are kicking off the Power of the Ballot Campaign with a goal to get a million Black Floridians to vote in 2024.

Plaintiffs argue that the overhaul of North Florida’s Congressional District 5 violated part of the constitutional amendment that barred drawing districts that would “diminish” the ability of minorities to “elect representatives of their choice.”

Florida-based Equal Ground leaders discussed federal funding for HBCU’s, broadband internet access and impact of 'unsafe' state laws on millions of Black residents with senior White House officials.

Attorneys for voting rights groups and the state will present arguments over the constitutionality of Florida's congressional map before the state's First District Court of Appeal.

The decision was the latest to strike down new congressional maps in Southern states over concerns that they diluted the voting power of Black residents.