#florida elections

[joodeegemstone]

how it feels to be in florida right now

[feminist-space]

Police knocking on doors, questioning Fla. voters about signing abortion rights ballot petition

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the moves during a Monday press conference. He said both are aimed at making sure November’s v

"State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November, and a state health care agency has launched a website targeting the ballot initiative with politically charged language.

Critics say they’re the latest efforts by Florida’s Republican elected officials to leverage state resources to try to block the abortion rights measure, moves which some Democratic officials argue could violate state laws against voter intimidation.

“Ron (DeSantis) has repeatedly used state power to interfere with a citizen-led process to get reproductive freedom on the ballot,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried told reporters on Monday. “This is their latest desperate attempt before Election Day.”

The ballot initiative known as Amendment 4 would enshrine abortion rights in Florida law. If approved by 60% of voters, the procedure would remain legal until the fetus is viable, as determined by the patient’s health care provider.

Isaac Menasche, one of nearly a million people who signed the petition to get the measure on the ballot, said a law enforcement officer knocked on his door last week in Lee County in southwest Florida to ask him about signing it.

The officer said the questioning was part of an investigation into alleged petition fraud, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

“I’m not a person who is going out there protesting for abortion,” Menasche told the newspaper. “I just felt strongly, and I took the opportunity when the person asked me to say, ‘Yeah, I’ll sign that petition.’”

Critics say the investigation is a brazen attempt to intimidate voters in the country’s third-largest state from protecting access to abortion — and the latest in a series of efforts by the governor’s administration to target Amendment 4.

“Amendment 4 was placed on the ballot by nearly one million Floridians around the state and across party lines who believe that people, not politicians, deserve the freedom to make their own health care decisions,” Lauren Brenzel, the director of the Yes on 4 campaign, said in an email. “But the State will stop at nothing to keep in place their near-total abortion ban.”

Florida law currently bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant."

Read the rest of the article here:

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2024/09/police-knocking-on-doors-questioning-fla-voters-about-signing-abortion-rights-ballot-petition.html

[thegreatgherkin87]

Elections happening on April 1, 2025

In Florida : special general election to fill the seats in the House of Representatives left by…

*Matt Gaetz (House District 1)- a republican who was suppose to be the US attorney general but who withdrew his nomination and also declined to resume his position in congress after a report came out with evidence that he paid for sex with a minor and abused illegal drugs while in congress

*Michael Waltz (House District 6)- a republican who is now the national security advisor under Trump

In Wisconsin:

-state Supreme Court election to fill the seats in left by retiring liberal justice Ann Walsh Bradley… this is the big one that Elon Musk is pouring money into and hoping to steal

- election for superintendent of public instruction election

[nashdoesstuff]

chat uh

if you live in florida and are eligible to vote vote yes on amendment 4

don’t let our right wing government tell women what they can and cant do with their bodies <3

[virovac]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Florida elections

2000: President, Senate

2002: Governor

2004: President, Senate

2006: Senate, Governor

2008: President

2010: Senate, Governor

2012: President, Senate

2014: Governor

2016: President, Senate

2018: Senate, Governor

2020: President

2022: Senate, Governor

2024: President, Senate

2026: Governor

2028: President, Senate

2030: Senate, Governor

2032: President

2026 will be the best bet for Democrats to take back the Governorship because there are no up-ballot elections to crowd it out. No president, no senate, just governor, so they won't have to worry about the coattail effect.

Our current governor Ron DeSantis is definitely going to be on the 2024 presidential ticket, either as the nominee himself or as Trump's new VP if he decides to run for a non-consecutive term. He faces re-election in 2022, probably going up against Charlie Crist, our former one term governor (Republican turned Independent turned Democrat), who he will probably defeat, so that means 2024 will decide who will run for governor in 2026. If DeSantis runs for president or VP and wins, then his lieutenant Jeanette Nuñez will become governor and serve out the last two years of his second term and almost certainly run for re-election in 2026, giving her an incumbency advantage. If DeSantis runs in 24 and loses, then he'll be term limited and unable to run for governor again in 26, making it an open race. Nuñez might run, or she might be primaried by an even farther right trumpist nutjob like Matt Gatez, but either way there will be no incumbent, so the Democrats won't face as steep an uphill battle. If Republicans take back the White House in 24, then the Democrats might have a midterm advantage in 26, but I wouldn't count on it.

Biden is much more popular than Trump, he won more votes than any candidate in American history, and a popular vote majority which no Republicans has gotten since Bush in 2004 and his dad in 1988. Given how much he has already improved the economy Biden will almost certainly win the popular vote again in 2024, though whether or not he'll win the electoral college is up in the air; Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are changing the laws to make it harder to vote and are redrawing congressional and state districts to favor themselves, so Biden might lose on a technicality, the third time this century. I pray not, because we can't handle another Trump term, or a DeSantis one; DeSantis is so stupid he makes Trump look like a Rhodes Scholar. Trump likes to pretend he's a genius, but DeSantis is proudly stupid, unabashedly anti-intellectual, he revels in it, calling intelligence an elitist liability. Republicans don't elect smart presidents, they haven't since Bush Sr in 1988, and before him Eisenhower in 1956.

2024 will be the greatest shit show to ever show shit, making 2016 and 2020 look like civilized philosophical debates.

[writeinmysoul]

Somehow we got fucking stuck with Marsha Blackburn. I swear you can’t trust Tennessee worth fucking shit. I fucking hate living here.

Also, I’m sorry about how your voting turned out in Florida & Texas; I was hella rooting for Andrew and Beto. This election just fucking aggravated my fucking life.

And fuck all you fuckers that didn’t vote. 😒

[melonberri]

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