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COMPLETE COVERAGE: 2024 Elections
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Here are the candidates who qualified for both federal and state elections ahead of the party primaries on Aug. 20. The general election is Tuesday, Nov. 5.
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Candidates have until Friday to file paperwork at the state Division of Elections to qualify for the 2024 legislative elections.
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Republicans have continued widening a gap that began in 2021 after the GOP overtook Democrats in registration.
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Florida supervisors of elections are pushing back on a rule proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration to update standards for determining voters' intent on ballots, saying the proposal includes "inconsistencies" that could lead to problems for county canvassing boards.
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A group called EagleAI sent the state a list of thousands of potentially double-registered voters, but other groups say that list isn’t accurate
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Voter outreach groups targeted by new laws in several GOP-led states are struggling to do their workLaws passed in several Republican-controlled states after the 2020 presidential election have criminalized much of the work done by voter outreach groups. Advocates are finding it difficult to adapt as they try to register and educate potential voters with just months to go before this year's presidential election.
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They say the legislature wrongly assumed that South Florida's Hispanic voters are cohesive when that's no longer the case since the white majority in Florida regularly votes in coalition with the Hispanic voters.
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University of South Florida researchers found a majority of registered voters polled across the political spectrum are in favor of more patrol agents and physical barriers along the U.S. southern border.
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Democrats believe young Florida voters will go to the polls in November because of the abortion and marijuana measures on the ballot. If they do, President Joe Biden will likely get their support even though many are lukewarm to a second term for him.
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Voter registration groups in Florida are helping fewer citizens sign up to cast an elections ballot, nearly a year after increased penalties for rules violations went into effect.
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Four members of Congress in the greater Tampa Bay area won't have to face opponents in the August primary. They include Democrat Kathy Castor and Republicans Anna Paulina Luna, Greg Steube and Scott Franklin.
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Republicans have managed to increase their party's control over all but 12 of Florida’s 67 county school boards, according to a new analysis of election data. The GOP’s control has increased from 44 counties to 55 in just a few years.
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A qualifying period will start for this year’s candidates for a U.S. Senate seat, U.S. House seats and state attorney, public defender and judicial posts. The qualifying period will end at noon Friday.
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A doctoral student at the University of Florida said morals will guide how some Americans head to the polls this year, or whether they will vote at all.
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The redrawn districts in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties were approved by legislators in 2022 and used in the election that November. They are being challenged by five residents.
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They include the abortion and recreational marijuana initiatives the Florida Supreme Court signed off on, along with partisan school board elections.
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The rulings Monday reject Attorney General Ashley Moody’s arguments that both of the proposed questions should have been rejected.