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The Florida State League of Women Voters was founded on March 31, 1921 by May Mann Jennings, at a meeting in Jacksonville. [2] It immediately voted to affiliate with the national League of Women Voters , although unlike the national organization and the Leagues in other states, the FSLWV was not the successor of a suffrage organization . [ 2 ]
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Voters will be faced with 6 constitutional amendment proposals on the ballot.
The general election will be on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, and each amendment must get at least 60% of the vote to pass. Here's what you need to know. Amendment 1 - Partisan School Board Members
Florida Amendment 4 [1] was a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, which failed on November 5, 2024. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Through a statewide referendum , the amendment achieved 57% support among voters in the U.S. state of Florida , short of the 60% supermajority required by law.
In 2021, the League of Women Voters of Florida partnered with VoteRiders to get word out to eligible voters about the changes made due to Floria Senate Bill 90, signed into law in May 2021. The Florida League also partnered with the Black Voters Matter Fund and the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans to file lawsuits against the changes.
As Florida voters start thinking about November, they shouldn’t forget a handful of proposed state constitutional amendments that will be at the end of the ballot. Amendments must garner at ...
Florida school board races have been non-partisan since voters passed an amendment in 1998 that required candidates to run without party labels. But lately, schools have been a political ...
In 2018, Florida voters passed Amendment 4, which extended voting rights to most former felons who had completed their sentences. [13] Despite passing with 65% of the vote, state officials were slow to implement the updated guidelines, preventing many newly eligible voters from voting for several years. [ 14 ]