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They include laws on abortion, affordable housing, the death penalty, immigration and LGBTQ+ issues.
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Democrats say the legislation would curb voter registration efforts, especially for people of color and felons who have completed their sentences.
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A 98-page elections bill filed by Republicans in the Florida Senate would place additional restrictions on voter registration groups.
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Legislators have already passed bills that allow for permitless gun garry, and allowing every student to be eligible for taxpayer-funded school vouchers.
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A 98-page elections bill that was filed a day before getting its first committee hearing cleared the Florida Senate Ethics and Elections Committee on Wednesday.
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The Senate bill immediately drew criticism Monday from Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat who called it “absurd to drop a 98-page elections bill with just a 24-hour notice for its first hearing.”
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Republicans say the program would help migrants by taking them to sanctuary cities. Democrats say it as a political stunt meant to serve the governor’s national political ambitions.
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A lawsuit from the Florida Democratic Party and two individual plaintiffs claim that the law could prevent volunteer observers from sharing information from canvassing-board meetings. It contends the law violates First Amendment and due-process rights.
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A judge said he wants to know "what evidence supports the district court’s finding of discriminatory intent.”
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U.S. Department of Justice attorneys last week filed a 35-page brief backing challenges by voting-rights groups to the law, which included placing additional restrictions on ballot drop boxes and on providing food and water to people waiting in line at polling places.
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They want an appeals court to uphold a district judge’s ruling that said increased “solicitation” restrictions near polling places violate speech rights.
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Voting-rights groups say the law was intended to restrict minority voters’ access to the ballot.