Renzo DowneyOctober 6, 2020
8min632
Law enforcement is trying to confirm Monday's deadline debacle, which saw 1.1 million requests per hour, was not a deliberate attack.
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Renzo DowneyOctober 6, 2020Renzo DowneyOctober 6, 2020
4min636
The Secretary of State said it was down for 15 minutes, but the site remains unresponsive.
Guest AuthorSeptember 15, 2020
6min472
Nobody should be silenced because the state can’t do its job.
Mitch PerryOctober 25, 20173min409
Two years after the Florida Legislature approved allowing Floridians online voter registration, registertovoteflorida.gov went live October 1. In 2015, state lawmakers provided the Secretary of State’s office $1.8 million to encourage him to support online registration, agreeing to delay implementation until Sunday. On Wednesday, Maria Matthews, Division Director for the Secretary of State’s office, told the […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 20, 2016
3min289
This past May, Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation to require Florida to adopt online voter registration by October 2017, though he said he did it with “some hesitation.” Democrats were unhappy the state couldn’t enact the new system in time for this fall’s general election, but if it were up to Secretary of State Ken Detzner […]
Mark FerruloJuly 28, 2015
6min256
Florida has the wrong leaders running our state with the wrong priorities, leaders such as Gov. Rick Scott and his allies in the Legislature who routinely ignore the needs of everyday Floridians. Bright spots, though, dot an otherwise dark sea of political pandering and corporate kowtowing. That’s why for the fifth consecutive year Progress Florida […]
Mark FerruloJuly 27, 20155min143
Florida has the wrong leaders running our state with the wrong priorities, leaders such as Gov. Rick Scott and his allies in the Legislature who routinely ignore the needs of everyday Floridians. Bright spots, though, dot an otherwise dark sea of political pandering and corporate kowtowing. That’s why for the fifth consecutive year Progress Florida […]
Associated PressMay 15, 2015
1min142
Florida will move ahead with online voter registration despite Gov. Rick Scott saying he is worried about putting it in place. Scott signed a bill Friday that mandates online registration in October 2017. The Republican governor signed the bill even though the state’s top election official criticized it. Scott in a letter said that he […]
Guest AuthorApril 27, 20155min174
The Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections (FSASE), a group of which I am currently the state president, has 66 supervisors of elections from both parties from around the state. We support the passage of online voter registration (House Bill 7143 and Senate Bill 228) in Florida. It is important to us because current […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015
3min236
Operating in his capacity as president of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, Republican Jerry Holland issued a “special guest editorial” this week on FSASE letterhead, urging the passage of online voter registration (via House Bill 7143 and Senate Bill 228) in Florida. “It is important to us because current voter registration is handled entirely […]