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Civil Rights Groups Pressure Miami-Dade County For Early Voting On College Campuses
Local chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters and several other groups are calling on Miami-Dade County to offer early voting on college campuses here.
Federal court orders 32 Florida counties to print sample ballots in Spanish
TALLAHASSEE - A federal judge Friday required elections officials in 32 counties to provide Spanish-language sample ballots for the November general election — but said there wasn’t enough time to order more far-reaching steps to help Puerto Ricans eligible to vote in Florida.
Pa. touts civic program to get more teens to register to vote
WILKES-BARRE — During the inaugural year of the Governor’s Civic Engagement Award program for Pennsylvania high schools, 2,955 eligible students from 16 high schools across the state registered to vote.
Florida voter registration tops 13 million
TALLAHASSEE – Some will vote by mail. Some will vote early. Some will go old-school and vote on the actual election day. Some won’t vote at all.
Voting Rights Groups Applaud Florida Election Officials for Providing Student-Accessible Voting, Urge Additional Early Voting Sites on Campuses
The League of Women Voters of Florida, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, All Voting is Local Florida, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund ask county Supervisors of Elections to follow the example of officials who have made it top priority to establish early voting on some college campuses in Alachua, Hillsborough, Leon, and Orange counties.
Nation’s largest voter registration program for youth ramps up in Wisconsin
For the first time, young people will comprise the largest eligible voting block this year, and NextGen America, a voter registration and engagement group, is running the largest youth organizing effort in American history.