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  2. Desmond Meade - Wikipedia

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    Desmond Meade (born July 22, 1967) is a voting rights activist and Executive Director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. [1] As chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, Meade led the successful effort to pass Florida Amendment 4, a 2018 state initiative that restored voting rights to over 1.4 million Floridians with previous felony convictions. [2]

  3. Florida Is Shunning the People Who Helped Build It - AOL

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    In 1990, the Migration Policy Institute reports, Florida was home to 1.66 million immigrants, who made up 12.9 percent of the total state population; by 2021, they numbered 4.6 million, or 21.2 ...

  4. Brooks Brothers riot - Wikipedia

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    The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration led by Republican staffers at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local ...

  5. Katherine Harris - Wikipedia

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    Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957) is an American politician from Florida.A Republican, she served in the Florida Senate from 1994 to 1998, as Secretary of State of Florida from 1999 to 2002, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district from 2003 to 2007.

  6. Time for a democracy check: The strain on Florida's free ...

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    Protecting the sanctity of the vote means accepting the decision of the voters in whom they choose in a particular race.

  7. Our right to vote is under assault in Florida — and so is our ...

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  8. Henry Flagler - Wikipedia

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    Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio.He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway.

  9. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee - Wikipedia

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    U. Florida student documentary exposes the state's anti-minority, anti-gay practices, The Independent Florida Alligator, October 2, 2000. Gannon, Michael. "Crises That Have Faced Florida from Statehood in 1845 to the Present," Democracy and the Economy in Florida at a Time of Crisis, The Rubin O'D. Askew Institute, 2002, pp. 6–9. (PDF document).