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Democracy is on the ballot this November. Florida voters can retain Gov. Ron DeSantis if they support his anti-gay, anti-immigrant and anti-abortion policies.
Protecting the sanctity of the vote means accepting the decision of the voters in whom they choose in a particular race. Time for a democracy check: The strain on Florida's free elections Skip to ...
Florida voted for the Republican nominee in all three presidential elections held during the Reconstruction era. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Shortly after, white Democrats regained control of the legislature. In 1885, they created a new constitution, followed by statutes through 1889, that disfranchised most Black people and many poor whites.
Florida's state budget is funded one-third from General Revenue and two-thirds from hundreds of trust funds. [11] The General Revenue portion of Florida's state budget is funded primarily by sales tax, while local governments also have their own respective budgets funded primarily by property taxes. The annual state budget is constructed by the ...
DeSantis and the Republicans move to dilute Black voting power, state Sen. Shevrin Jones says.
Jacob Grumbach published the State Democracy Index which evaluates states between 2000 and 2018 on the strength of their electoral democracy. While starting in 2002 and accelerating after the 2010 elections and redistricting, Grumbach finds American states under unified Republican Party control began significant backsliding, while Democratic ...
Florida previously had rigorous felony disenfranchisement laws that denied approximately 400,000 people the privilege of voting [2] In 2007, at the urging of Gov. Charlie Crist, the laws were relaxed, allowing hundreds of thousands of non-violent offenders to regain their voting rights after having served their prison terms. [3]
OPINION: Florida is a classic example of why we cannot allow strongmen to turn back the clock and take away The post Top 10 things Gov. Ron DeSantis has done to ruin democracy in Florida appeared ...