Our Voice
Our Florida

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Democracy for All

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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.
Find Your County's Election Info
March 26 • 2:00 PM • Virtual
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LEGISLATIVE TOWN HALL MEETING

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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.

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April 27, 2026
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Civil Rights
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Democracy
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Elections
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From SVFL
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Press Releases
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Voting Rights

Media Advisory: Florida Voting Rights Groups Celebrate New Early Voting Site With Duval Supervisor of Elections

Tallahassee, FL – Earlier today the Florida Senate passed an amended version of House Bill 991. This bill is unnecessary and will make it harder to vote for American citizens who live in Florida. 

This legislation would require people to provide proof of citizenship via a birth certificate or passport when registering to vote in Florida. According to Voteriders 34.5 million Americans don’t have a current state-issued ID, and 21 million—1 in 10 eligible voters—don’t have easy access to a US birth certificate or passport. 

Under the amendments passed before bill approval Wednesday, these requirements will not go into effect for the 2026 Congressional and Statewide elections, but will go into effect in January 2027, be used during the 2028 presidential elections.

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

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March 13, 2026
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Civil Rights
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Democracy
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Elections
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From SVFL
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Press Releases
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Voting Rights

House Bill 991 will make it harder for American citizens to vote

Tallahassee, FL – Earlier today the Florida Senate passed an amended version of House Bill 991. This bill is unnecessary and will make it harder to vote for American citizens who live in Florida. 

This legislation would require people to provide proof of citizenship via a birth certificate or passport when registering to vote in Florida. According to Voteriders 34.5 million Americans don’t have a current state-issued ID, and 21 million—1 in 10 eligible voters—don’t have easy access to a US birth certificate or passport. 

Under the amendments passed before bill approval Wednesday, these requirements will not go into effect for the 2026 Congressional and Statewide elections, but will go into effect in January 2027, be used during the 2028 presidential elections.

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

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March 5, 2026
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Civil Rights
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Democracy
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From SVFL
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Press Releases

Florida shouldn’t be deciding who is a terrorist organization

For Immediate Release 
March 5, 2026

Tallahassee, FL – Earlier today the Florida Senate passed House Bill 1471. It would allow the governor and Cabinet to designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations” based on secret evidence. It would also allow a new government surveillance force to investigate Floridians who express opinions the state determines are “a threat” to the interests of “this state and the United States of America.”

State Voices Florida opposes this legislation and as unnecessary and likely to be abused by government officials. Florida should not be able to designate organizations “domestic terror organizations” based on evidence that is not public. 

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September 26, 2023
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Media Advisory: Florida Voting Rights Groups Celebrate New Early Voting Site With Duval Supervisor of Elections

Tallahassee, FL – Earlier today the Florida Senate passed an amended version of House Bill 991. This bill is unnecessary and will make it harder to vote for American citizens who live in Florida. 

This legislation would require people to provide proof of citizenship via a birth certificate or passport when registering to vote in Florida. According to Voteriders 34.5 million Americans don’t have a current state-issued ID, and 21 million—1 in 10 eligible voters—don’t have easy access to a US birth certificate or passport. 

Under the amendments passed before bill approval Wednesday, these requirements will not go into effect for the 2026 Congressional and Statewide elections, but will go into effect in January 2027, be used during the 2028 presidential elections.

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

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  • 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.
Get Election Information

Juanica Fernandes, Executive Director of State Voices Florida, discusses voting rights in Florida.

Voting Rights Advocates Across the Deep South Vow to Fight Back After Supreme Court Guts VRA, Approves Discriminatory Alabama Map–Southern Leadership for Voter Engagement, or SOLVE, hosted the panel in partnership with Groundwork Project. The panel brought together voting rights advocates from across the South to discuss recent redistricting battles following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.

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August 12, 2026
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Civic Access
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Civil Rights
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Elections
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Redistricting
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Voting Rights

Judge again bars Trump administration from implementing order that sought to limit mail voting

by Michael Casey and Nicholas Riccardi for AP News

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and directly involve the U.S. Postal Service in election operations in a way that would limit mail voting.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani had already halted the order Trump signed in March, his second one attempting to set national election rules. On June 25, she sided with Democratic state attorneys general in granting summary judgment, preventing the core parts of Trump’s order from taking effect.

Tuesday’s ruling creates another legal hurdle for the Trump administration to overcome should it get the initial injunction lifted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“That it is now less than 90 days before the November 3, 2026 midterm elections underscores the critical need for an injunction to prevent Defendants from changing election rules on the eve of the election,” she wrote.

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August 11, 2026
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Civic Access
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Civil Rights
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Elections
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Redistricting
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Voting Rights

Homeland Security Intensifies Pursuit of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls

by Madeline Ngo, Nick Corasaniti and Hamed Aleaziz for The New York Times

The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did so inadvertently or never cast ballots — an unusually aggressive approach that is helping it promote baseless claims that voter fraud is rampant.

State audits and studies have repeatedly found that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and there have been no instances in which their votes are known to have swayed an election. It is against federal law for noncitizens to register to vote or actually vote, and doing so can carry steep penalties, including jail time and deportation.

In the past, the Department of Homeland Security has not aggressively tried to deport the relatively small number of noncitizens who unlawfully registered to vote, especially if they mistakenly signed up, according to immigration policy experts. But the Trump administration is taking a harder line in hopes of increasing deportations while also building a case that illegal voting has been underestimated.

Homeland security agents are reopening voter fraud cases that had been closed and investigating voter registration efforts in major cities. Customs officers have detained immigrants suspected of being on the voter rolls at border checkpoints, according to immigration attorneys. And green card holders applying for citizenship have been placed in deportation proceedings for registering to vote.

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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.

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