Scott PowersMay 13, 2019
3min251
All Voting is Local setting up ground games in key states.
Tag: voting rights
Scott PowersMay 13, 2019
Guest AuthorMay 9, 2019
5min407
Is there not a way to reason with one another?
Jacob OglesMay 6, 2019
5min346
House members will hear about election issues in Florida.
Ryan NicolApril 27, 2019
2min541
Booker will follow up the event with a fundraiser in Miami Beach.
Scott PowersApril 9, 2019
10min431
'I will be 190 years old before I am eligible to vote.'
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 8, 2019
8min307
Congressman Charlie Crist joined several ex-felons to register to vote Tuesday morning at the downtown St. Petersburg Supervisor of Elections office opened. It was the first day qualifying former offenders could register. Florida voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 4 last November, which automatically restores nonviolent ex-felons’ right to vote as long as they have fully paid their […]
Guest AuthorNovember 27, 2018
6min458
Floridians just made history by restoring voting rights to over 1.4 million people with prior felony convictions who completed their sentences. With the passage of Amendment 4, Florida approved the largest re-enfranchisement of voters in the United States in over five decades and dealt a significant blow against the racist holdover policies of the Jim […]
Staff ReportsNovember 5, 2018
6min648
Amendment 4, one of the highest-profile and best-publicized amendments Florida voters are considering, is on track to pass. That’s according to a survey out Monday by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at California-Berkeley. The poll showed 65 percent of likely voters backing the amendment with 25 percent opposed, consistent with recent polling from […]
Jacob OglesOctober 26, 2018
5min987
For leaders of the Christian Coalition of America, the letting ex-felons vote seemed a no-brainer. “Redemption and second chances are really at the heart of the Christian faith,” says Keith den Hollander, national field director So now the famously conservative organization stands with liberal organizations, like the ACLU, in championing Amendment 4, which would automatically […]
Guest AuthorOctober 24, 2018
5min466
Florida is one of just four states that bans individuals with past felony convictions from voting for life. This has resulted in 1.4 million Floridians, roughly 10 percent of the state’s voting-age population, being unable to vote. An estimated 27 percent of all disenfranchised formerly incarcerated people in the country reside in Florida. Amendment 4 […]