This week, a group of voting rights and civil rights advocates, including Project Vote, wrote to the Florida Senate Community Affairs Committee as it reviews and amends the proposed SB 600.
The group requests that the committee passes new laws to shore up Floridians’ voting rights and fix the voting system that caused long lines throughout early voting and Election Day last year. While SB 600 has a few measures that seek to address voting problems in Florida, the voting rights and civil rights advocates argue that it fails to address many of the problems and more can be done.
Groups that signed the letter include Project Vote, ACLU of Florida, Common Cause Florida, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Fair Elections Legal Network, National Congress of Black Women, Advancement Project, among several others. Read the letter here.