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VOTE-BY-MAIL

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The deadline for voters to request that ballots are mailed to them ahead of the March 19 Municipal and Presidential Preference Primary elections is TODAY, March 7th, at 5 p.m.

Due to the vote-by-mail enrollment reset following the 2022 General Election, voters might be unaware that they will not be receiving their vote-by-mail ballots unless they re-submitted a request and they could miss the deadline. Please use and share this convenient resource that will direct voters to each county's online vote-by-mail request site.

There are many municipal elections happening across the state and voters should not miss out on those. Some counties holding municipal elections include Broward, Collier, Flagler, Holmes, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, Pinellas, and Sarasota.

Vote-by-Mail Resources

Upcoming Election

March 2

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Saturday, March 9 - Saturday, March 16

(Excluding Sunday)

*Each county Supervisor of Elections may offer more days of early voting. Contact your County Supervisor of Elections for the early voting schedule for your county.

ELECTION DAY

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Tuesday, March 19

Contact your local Supervisor of Elections to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, check important dates for local elections, and for more details on voting in your area.

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March 26 • 2:00 PM • Virtual

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LEGISLATIVE TOWN HALL MEETING

State Voices Florida is excited to announce that we’ll be having a virtual Town Hall on Tuesday, March 26 at 2 p.m.

The focus of the Town Hall will be on the Florida 2024 legislative session that concluded earlier this month. Our main focus will be on voting rights legislation, but we’ll also touch on criminal justice reform and how some of our legislators were treated during this session.

The event will be moderated by State Voices Florida Communications Director Larry Hannan. The panel will include:

State Representative Anna Eskamani
Black Voters Matter Florida Organizing Director Jamil Davis
ACLU of Florida Policy Strategist Abdelilah Shkir

To register for the town hall, click the button below.

Register for the Legislative Town Hall

State Voices Florida is a statewide civic engagement organization committed to bringing together progressive 501(C)(3) organizations to work together in building power around civic issues. If the progressive movement works together and speaks with one voice, great things will happen.

We believe everyone should have the right to vote, and voting should be simple and easy. We also support reproductive rights, environmental justice, criminal justice reform, economic justice and affordable housing for everyone.

Along with our partner organizations, we use data and technology, people-powered campaigns, and coalitions to collectively build a multiracial democracy that allows every Floridian to thrive and live in their full dignity. We are a member of the State Voices Affiliated Network, a network of state-based coalitions, advocates, and organizers fighting for a healthy, multiracial democracy.

We have over 100 partner organizations. They range from large national organizations with hundreds of employees to small nonprofits based out of a single county or even a single neighborhood. We provide support and tools to nonprofit partners regardless of size, to improve infrastructure while increasing capacity for all of our partners.

August 5, 2025

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Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act!

Join us Wednesday, August 6 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ET for food, music and joyful resistance! We are gathering to claim our power and celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act!

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was signed into law on August 6, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. We are coming together to celebrate the protections it promised and empower each other as the fight for a free and fair democracy continues. As the Voting Rights Act and many of our most valued freedoms continue to be attacked at the state and national level, join us as we counter fear and repression with joy and collective strength.

Where: Callahan Neighborhood Center
101 N. Parramore Ave.
Orlando, Florida 32801

When: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

May 1, 2025

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Make the citizen initiative process easier….not harder

Tallahassee, FL – HB 1205, a bill to restrict citizen-led amendments, was approved by the Florida Senate earlier today. State Voices Florida opposes this legislation. The citizen-led amendment process in Florida is the strictest in the nation, requiring nearly one million signatures to get on the ballot and 60% support from voters to pass. The process should be made easier…not harder.

Floridians have used citizen-led amendments to pass transformative policies, such as the $15 minimum wage, legalizing medical marijuana, restoring voting rights to returning citizens and prohibiting gerrymandering when drawing Congressional Districts.

The following is a statement from Larry Hannan, communications and policy director at State Voices Florida.

“The citizen-led amendment process is one of the most direct ways Floridians can shape the future we all deserve. It embodies the collective power of Floridians, uniting us across race, zip code, and income to address the issues that matter most to our communities. This is direct democracy at its best—a system where the will of the people drives progress and shapes a better future. We call on legislators to abandon efforts to make this process harder.”

April 3, 2025

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Restricting the citizen amendment process hurts all Floridians

Tallahassee, FL – HB 1205, a bill to restrict citizen-led amendments, was approved by the Florida House of Representatives earlier today. The citizen-led amendment process is one of the most direct ways Floridians can shape the future we all deserve. It embodies the collective power of Floridians, uniting us across race, zip code, and income to address the issues that matter most to our communities. This is direct democracy at its best—a system where the will of the people drives progress and shapes a better future.

If this bill or its companion in the Senate, SPB 7016, becomes law it will give only ten days to turn in petitions, and create unnecessary and burdensome fines on volunteers, preventing everyday Floridians from being able pass policies that improve our lives and strengthen our communities when politicians refuse to act.

State Voices Florida opposes this legislation and urges the Senate to reject both HB 1205 and SPB 7016. The citizen-led amendment process in Florida is the strictest in the nation, requiring nearly one million signatures to get on the ballot and 60% support from voters to pass. The process should be made easier…not harder.

September 26, 2023

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Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act!

Join us Wednesday, August 6 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ET for food, music and joyful resistance! We are gathering to claim our power and celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act!

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was signed into law on August 6, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. We are coming together to celebrate the protections it promised and empower each other as the fight for a free and fair democracy continues. As the Voting Rights Act and many of our most valued freedoms continue to be attacked at the state and national level, join us as we counter fear and repression with joy and collective strength.

Where: Callahan Neighborhood Center
101 N. Parramore Ave.
Orlando, Florida 32801

When: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Everyone deserves the ability to achieve their full potential and the freedom to be their truest selves. We envision a country in which this is a reality.
BIPOC communities must be at the decision-making table because those most impacted by the problems have the best ideas for the solutions.
Voting is an action we can take to achieve our shared vision—and casting a ballot should be easy and accessible to each voter. Every vote must count.

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Don't Make It Harder to Vote

Larry Hannon, Communications and Policy Director for State Voices Florida, at the Pride Parade in Jacksonville.

Transcript:
Hi, I'm Larry Hannon, Communications & Policy Director at State Voices Florida. Earlier today, State Voices submitted a comment to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) opposing the petition of the America First Legal Foundation, which was founded by Stephen Miller.

That petition is urging the CAC to adopt a new regulation that would require proof of citizenship before registering to vote. If this proposed regulation is adopted, it will make it much harder for regular Americans to cast a ballot.

Our statement to the EAC was "from closed polling places to limiting voting options, it is already harder for citizens in the South to vote. Adding a requirement that we show a passport birth certificate, or their citizenship papers to register will make it even harder. We fought and defeated poll taxes and literacy tests decades ago. Please don't make a change that would take us backwards."

The EAC is taking comments on this until Monday, October 20th. I would urge everyone to submit a comment if they can. Thank you.

Submit a Comment to the EAC

November 14, 2025

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Court decision undercuts Gov. DeSantis election-fraud prosecutions, sends issue to state Supreme Court

by Jesse Mendoza for Florida Politics

A state appeals court has overturned the conviction of Nathan Hart, one of the first Floridians arrested by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election police unit in 2022, ruling that state prosecutors never had proper authority for the case.

The Second District Court of Appeal found that the Office of Statewide Prosecution (OSP) lacked jurisdiction to charge Hart because his alleged crimes occurred only in Hillsborough County, not across multiple judicial circuits as the law required at the time. Judges reversed his conviction for falsely affirming that he was eligible to vote during the 2020 presidential election and ordered the case dismissed.

Hart, of Gibsonton, was among 19 people arrested in 2022 during a sweep that DeSantis touted as a crackdown on voter fraud. The arrests followed creation of the Office of Election Crimes and Security, which was established following claims by President Donald Trump and other Republicans that widespread voter fraud marred the 2020 election.

Hart was among defendants who registered to vote after Florida voters approved a 2018 constitutional amendment automatically restoring voting rights for many felons who had completed their sentences. The amendment, however, excluded people convicted of murder or sexual offenses.

November 7, 2025

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Out-of-touch Trump talks up economy among sycophants and stars in Miami

by Richard Luscombe for The Guardian

Like many others across the nation, people gathered outside the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 18, 2025, to send a message: No Kings. People played music and danced. Kids found space to throw a football. People ran into old friends.

“What really stood out to me was how much fun it was. I mean, people were enjoying themselves. You had people in frog costumes and other things. You had some pretty funny signs,” says Larry Hannan, communications and policy director for State Voices Florida, who attended the No Kings rally outside the courthouse in Jacksonville.

Hannan, who also attended the first iteration of No Kings back in June, estimated a 50 percent increase in attendance. Jacksonville’s protest mirrored other mobilizations across the country. On Sept. 18, it’s estimated that 7 million people turned out at 2,700 No Kings events.

The protests come in response to the Trump administration’s increasingly authoritarian actions as Trump approaches the end of his first year in office. During his first 10 months back in the White House, Trump has weaponized federal agencies against the American people.

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State Voices Florida is a statewide civic engagement organization committed to bringing together progressive 501(C)(3) organizations to work together in building power around civic issues. If the progressive movement works together and speaks with one voice, great things will happen.

We believe everyone should have the right to vote, and voting should be simple and easy. We also support reproductive rights, environmental justice, criminal justice reform, economic justice and affordable housing for everyone.

Along with our partner organizations, we use data and technology, people-powered campaigns, and coalitions to collectively build a multiracial democracy that allows every Floridian to thrive and live in their full dignity. We are a member of the State Voices Affiliated Network, a network of state-based coalitions, advocates, and organizers fighting for a healthy, multiracial democracy.

We have over 100 partner organizations. They range from large national organizations with hundreds of employees to small nonprofits based out of a single county or even a single neighborhood. We provide support and tools to nonprofit partners regardless of size, to improve infrastructure while increasing capacity for all of our partners.

Our Voice
Our Florida

Building a Better Democracy for All

State Voices Florida is a statewide civic engagement organization committed to bringing together progressive 501(C)(3) organizations to work together in building power around civic issues. If the progressive movement works together and speaks with one voice, great things will happen.

We believe everyone should have the right to vote, and voting should be simple and easy. We also support reproductive rights, environmental justice, criminal justice reform, economic justice and affordable housing for everyone.

Along with our partner organizations, we use data and technology, people-powered campaigns, and coalitions to collectively build a multiracial democracy that allows every Floridian to thrive and live in their full dignity. We are a member of the State Voices Affiliated Network, a network of state-based coalitions, advocates, and organizers fighting for a healthy, multiracial democracy.

We have over 100 partner organizations. They range from large national organizations with hundreds of employees to small nonprofits based out of a single county or even a single neighborhood. We provide support and tools to nonprofit partners regardless of size, to improve infrastructure while increasing capacity for all of our partners.