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Vote-by-mail ballots fix clears last committee

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A bill that would let voters fix mismatching signatures on their vote-by-mail ballots so they can be counted has cleared its second committee. The House Government Accountability Committee OK’d the bill (HB 105), carried by House Democratic Leader Janet Cruz of Tampa, by a unanimous vote on Thursday. It would require supervisors of elections and their staff to allow voters to turn in an affidavit to cure any signature discrepancies until 5 p.m. the day before an election. They would…

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Over 28K overseas ballots sent as registration deadline nears for March presidential primary

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There’s still more than a month before the Florida primary, but some voters are already casting their ballots. Elections officials have already mailed 28,862 ballots to military and civilian voters living overseas. The deadline to get those ballots in the mail was Saturday. The next round of vote-by-mail ballots are scheduled to go out Tuesday — the same day as the New Hampshire primary. Thousands of ballots are expected to be mailed to Florida voters living stateside in advance of…

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Jerry Holland: Online voter registration is faster, cheaper and more secure

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The Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections (FSASE), a group of which I am currently the state president, has 66 supervisors of elections from both parties from around the state. We support the passage of online voter registration (House Bill 7143 and Senate Bill 228) in Florida. It is important to us because current voter registration is handled entirely by hand, on paper forms, and manually entered into our statewide database. This method is much more costly and prone…

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Today on Context Florida: Pot and 2016, existing projects, financial literacy and online voter registration

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Today on Context Florida: Medical marijuana amendment could sway 2016 presidential election, says former Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp. If the Florida Legislature fails to pass a medical marijuana bill this session the issue is almost certain to resurface as a proposed constitutional amendment. However, it is widely believed that in a presidential election cycle (when Democrats in Florida turn out by 4-6 percent more than in non-presidential election cycles) a medical marijuana amendment will pass. The emails are puzzling. The subject…

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