Election Law

If a new Florida elections bill goes into effect, driver licenses will soon include a new notable fact: whether a person is a U.S. citizen.

If Gov. Ron DeSantis signs, it wouldn't take effect until Jan. 1, 2027.

A Florida elections bill could change how voters prove their citizenship — and remove student and retirement home IDs at the polls.

Florida senators advanced bills aimed at reducing voter eligibility confusion for those with felony records — confusion that’s led to arrests.

Republican lawmakers want to add restrictions to the process that allows Floridians to place constitutional amendments on the ballot. Democrats and voting rights advocates say the proposal would silence citizens.

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker denied the request from attorneys for Secretary of State Cord Byrd in a lawsuit challenging the 2023 law.

A federal judge says restrictions on after-hour drop boxes may make it inconvenient to return ballots outside business hours, but they don’t keep Floridians from voting.

The issues involved parts of the law that imposed new restrictions on mail-in ballot drop boxes and voter-registration groups.

In part of a series of legal battles about Florida election-law changes, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court on Thursday heard arguments in a challenge to a 2023 law that imposed restrictions on groups that collect voter-registration applications.

He paused parts of the law that would prevent non-U.S. citizens from “collecting or handling” voter-registration applications and make it a felony for voter-registration group workers to keep personal information of voters.

They include laws on abortion, affordable housing, the death penalty, immigration and LGBTQ+ issues.

Democrats say the legislation would curb voter registration efforts, especially for people of color and felons who have completed their sentences.