Election Law

DeSantis this week instructed Secretary of State Laurel Lee to investigate whether Facebook exempted some of its users from the platform's own rules, allowing them to post content that would otherwise be blocked or labeled as false.

Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate would give voters a say in whether to turn school board elections into partisan contests.

Advocacy groups claim the bill will impose unconstitutional burdens on voters, especially people of color and voters with disabilities.

The federal lawsuit challenges Florida's new election laws.

"I mean, this is happening not just in Florida, but it's Florida, Georgia, Texas, other states," Crist said. "And so that's why you have the federal government. You have to come in and stop these Jim Crow laws that they're passing to discriminate."

Governor Ron DeSantis signed the elections bill into law Thursday morning. A lot of the bill has similarities between what was signed earlier this year in Georgia.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the measure live on Fox News. It's the latest Republican-led effort to alter state voting rules following record-breaking turnout during the 2020 election.

The plan is still under fire from Democrats and voting rights groups who say the rest of the bill makes it harder for Floridians to vote.

From protecting voters' personal information to making Election Day a state holiday, there are dozens of election law changes on the table.

As the votes are tallied in the 2020 presidential election, all eyes are on the states where the race will be decided. And this time it’s not Florida in the national spotlight.

A committee bill in the Florida house looking to make sweeping changes to the state’s election laws has cleared a key committee stop. A number of them...

Many people who want to vote face obstacles like past criminal records, voter ID laws and purging of voter rolls. Even if they aren't barred from voting, they may be kept from the polls.