Voting Laws

Due to changes in voting laws, Floridians may have to update their registration.

A new Florida law means that voter registration groups have had to rethink how volunteers fill out the forms.

County election supervisors say the new restrictions will create significant election reporting delays and a slew of costs for local election offices, and could disenfranchise large numbers of voters.

AARP Florida Director of Advocacy Zayne Smith has tracked the changes in Florida’s elections laws. She discusses what voters can expect.

Ten Florida men with felony convictions have been charged with voter fraud because prosecutors say they registered and voted illegally. Critics say the punishments are unfair.

On this week's Florida Roundup, we discussed Gov. Ron DeSantis' reaction to separate incidents in Orlando and Miami, and a trial that got underway this week over the state’s new voting law.

Republican state Rep. Cyndi Stevenson of St. Augustine has introduced a bill to make voter registration data like political party and day of birth confidential.

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

"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."

Florida could become the latest state to revamp its election laws following the 2020 presidential cycle. The legislation follows disproven claims of voter fraud in other states by former President Donald Trump.

Delivering a victory to Democrats, a federal judge Friday declared unconstitutional a decades-old Florida law that requires candidates who are in the same…

The Florida Cabinet’s clemency hearing Tuesday brought out a group called Faith in Florida. The group’s Live Free campaign aims to restore the voting...