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Elections 2024

The Wheels Are Falling Off the Ronbo Bus

December 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

It's just not going well. (© FlaglerLive via CNN)

Ron DeSantis has decided to show how tough he is, going on the offensive not against Moscow but against a peaceable nation of pink buildings, blue seas, and Black people, wooing voters in Iowa and New Hampshire by hollering, “Like, if the Bahamas were firing rockets into Fort Lauderdale, like, we would not accept that for, like, one minute. I mean, we would just level it.”

The End of the Republican Party

December 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Talk of political parties facing impending doom is nothing new. Similar rhetoric was levied toward the Democratic Party in the mid-1980s after it had endured consecutive losses at the presidential level, including a massive 49-state rout in 1984. But the Republican Party seems to be engaging in a level of infighting and dysfunction that has even the most cynical observers stepping back and taking notice.

How DeSantis and GOP Are Undermining Abortion-Right Ballot Initiatives Before the Vote

December 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

DeSantis's advice to the GOP on abortion-rights initiatives: blur the message to stop the momentum. (© FlaglerLive)

As abortion-rights initiative pick up victories in referendums, Republicans across the nation, exemplified by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, want to change the terms of the debate by injecting it with misinformation or overriding the referendum process.

Abortion Rights Supporters Reach 77% of Needed Signatures for Constitutional Amendment Ballot Measure

December 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A familiar sight since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. (Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash)

Supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure abortion rights in Florida continue moving closer to submitting enough petition signatures to get on the 2024 ballot. The Florida Division of Elections website Friday showed 687,700 valid petition signatures for the measure, which is sponsored by the political committee Floridians Protecting Freedom.

ER Physician Paul Mucciolo Files for Conklin’s School Board Seat, Citing Need for ‘Healthy Dose of Professionalism’

December 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Dr. Paul Mucciolo. (© FlaglerLive)

Dr. Paul Mucciolo, an emergency-medicine physician at AdventHealth Palm Coast, declared his candidacy for the District 3 seat on the Flagler County School Board to bring back “a healthy dose of professionalism” to the board, he said, and to return the school district to an A-rated organization. Mucciolo is running for the seat Colleen Conklin has held since 2000. Conklin has elected not to run again in 2024, as has Cheryl Massaro, though Massaro may not have entirely closed the door on another run. 

In Florida, Voter-Suppression Is Essential to GOP’s Edge

December 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

One of Florida's insiduous voter-suppression methods is to prohibit ballot drop-off boxes in most places, and to prohibit their use where they are permitted, if they are not monitored by an elections staffer. (© FlaglerLive)

Republicans in 2023 are on a campaign to emulate what occurred during Reconstruction by disenfranchising African Americans, engaging in severe gerrymandering so that the odds are turn in their favor in 2024. Their harsh and uncompromising position on abortion is costing them support and has led to losses in primaries. But the GOP’s political strategy is explained by former President Donald Trump, who has said the quiet part out loud: Republicans will never again win elections if democratic reforms make voting easier.

Florida Appeals Court Upholds Disenfranchising Black Voters in North Florida, a Victory for DeSantis

December 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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A state appeals court has rejected a legal attempt to save a Black-opportunity congressional district in North Florida, relying on legal reasoning never raised by the parties to the case: That the district originally was devised to benefit Democrats, not Blacks specifically.

Kaiti Lenhart and Flagler’s Elections Team Host Supervisors of Election from 7 Counties Ahead of 2024 Contests

December 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Flagler County Elections Team on Wednesday hosted seven county Supervisors of Elections and their staff for the last quarterly Florida Supervisors of Election District 5 Meeting of the year. A total of 24 people attended the meeting at the supervisor’s office at the Government Services Building in Bunnell.

Should Biden Reconsider His Bid for a 2nd Term?

November 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Stung by a succession of high profile polls showing President Joe Biden trailing former president Donald Trump among crucial swing state voters, the White House and its allies in Congress have scrambled to calm jittery nerves and reassure donors and establishment leaders all is well and under control. Many aren’t buying it.

Citing ‘Broken and Arbitrary System,’ Plaintiffs Argue Against Ending Felon Voting Rights Case

November 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Desmond Meade --- a felon who garnered international acclaim for his advocacy for the constitutional amendment --- warned that the appeals-court ruling and Hinkle’s preliminary injunction applied only to the 17 plaintiffs in the case. (Desmond Meade/Facebook)

Plaintiffs allege that the way state and local officials have carried out Amendment 4, designed to restore voting rights for felons who have completed their sentences, violated the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act. Attorneys for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and four individual plaintiffs filed a 61-page court document opposing a request by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, county clerks of court and elections supervisors to dismiss the lawsuit.

Court Rules You Can’t Sue to Enforce Voting Rights. Is That Fair?

November 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The recent court decision about the Voting Rights Act could be a setback for people’s right to vote.

A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government – not private citizens or civil rights groups – could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This decision will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court – but if it stands, it could gut individual people’s and civil rights groups’ legal right to fight racial discrimination in voting.

Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies Are Setting the Tone for GOP’s Presidential Contenders

November 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

There wouldn;t be much need for HSI under another Trump administration: migrants will be rounded up and shipped out. (ICE)

What were once considered far-right policies are now common talking points among the GOP candidates. That includes support for building a wall along the Southern U.S.-Mexico border and ending birthright citizenship for American-born children of undocumented immigrants — a protection that is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Realtors Want Their Signs in Rights of Way. Palm Coast Warns that Hate and Other Signs Would Follow.

November 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

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Palm Coast Council member Ed Danko is leading the charge on behalf of Realtors and other businesses to open up city rights of way to their advertising signs on weekends. Fellow Council member Theresa Pontieri is warning that doing so would open up rights of ways to every sign imaginable, including hate signs, while overwhelming the city’s Code Enforcement Department. The council is split on an issue it will have to decide soon.

At Florida Summit, Trump Bashes, Mocks and Triumphs

November 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Donald Trump surrounded by Florida Republican state lawmakers who endorsed him on Saturday in Kissimmee on Nov. 4, 2023 (Mitch Perry)

Former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the GOP presidential race, closed out a daylong event at the Republican Party’s Florida Freedom Summit in Kissimmee on Saturday with an 80-minute address filled with mockery — bashing GOP challengers Gov. Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, plus President Joe Biden.

Don O’Brien Said to Consider Dropping Out of House Race, Pam Richardson Runs for County Commission

October 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Donald O'Brien, left, and Pam Richardson. (© FlaglerLive)

Darryl Boyer, one of three Republican candidates in the primary for the state House seat that Paul Renner is relinquishing in 2024, said today that Donald O’Brien, one of the other two competitors for that seat, told him he was likely dropping out of the race. At the same time, Pam Richardson, the Realtor-broker, has joined the Republican primary race for O’Brien’s Commission seat, also contested by Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa.

Don Gaetz Wants Back in Florida Senate as His Son Disrupts U.S. House

October 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Don Gaetz wants to return. (Facebook)

Former state Senate President Don Gaetz is seeking a return to the Legislature as his son makes waves in Washington, D.C. Gaetz, a Niceville Republican who served in the Senate from 2006 to 2016, including as president during the 2013 and 2014 legislative sessions, said Monday he was filing paperwork to run next year in the Panhandle’s Senate District 1.

DeSantis Will Debate Gavin Newsom in Georgia in November

September 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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After weeks of negotiations, a 90-minute debate between Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity will take place on the Fox News Channel on November 30 in Georgia. The specific location has not been announced yet.

Crazy and Cruel Sell Well in Florida. So Scott Is Running Again.

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Rick Scott issues a manifesto. (© FlaglerLive)

In response to the NAACP, the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign warnings that travel to Florida could be hazardous to people of color, LGBTQ people, or people who just believe in decency and tolerance, Scott posted a huffy hunk of mansplaining on that X-thing that everyone still calls Twitter, warning “socialists and communists” and suchlike to stay out of Florida.

Florida Under DeSantis Is Ground Zero of Voter Disenfranchisement

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

If you can. (Derek Bridges via Flickr)

DeSantis and the malleable Florida Legislature have cracked down on political protest, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ community, and women and trans men who might need abortions, among others. In elections litigation alone, the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition sued the state in federal court in Miami alleging the state has erected barriers to felons hoping to regain their voting rights under 2018’s Amendment 4, which the organization sponsored.

State Attorney Monique Worrell Fights Her Suspension by DeSantis at Supreme Court

September 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Monique Worrell, a Democrat, was elected State Attorney in 2020 with 67 percent of the vote. (Facebook)

Suspended Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell on Wednesday asked the Florida Supreme Court to overturn Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision last month to oust her, saying he had no legal basis for the move. Worrell’s suspension came a little more than a year after DeSantis suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren in a highly controversial move. Worrell and Warren are Democrats, while the governor is a Republican.

With K-12 Health Standards Mum on Abortion, Younger Floridians Seek More Influence Ahead of Court Case

September 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Abortion rights-activists with Occupy Tally gather on April 14, 2023 to protest a a recently signed six-week abortion ban. Credit: Danielle J. Brown

The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Sept. 8 on the abortion issues and could reverse the course the court set more than 30 years ago. Some young Floridians are turning to the future of reproductive freedom in Florida, as through Floridians Protecting Freedom, the group that launched a pro-abortion initiative to add a constitutional referendum on reproductive freedom to the November 2024 ballot.

Judge Rules Unconstitutional DeSantis Plan That Eliminated Black Representation

September 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh ruled that a congressional redistricting plan pushed through the Legislature by Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the Florida Constitution and needs to be redrawn. The judge sided with voting-rights groups in a lawsuit focused on a North Florida district that in the past elected Black Democrat Al Lawson but was dramatically revamped during the 2022 redistricting process. White Republicans won all North Florida congressional districts in the November elections.

Channeling George Wallace, DeSantis Uses Education to Keep Blacks Down

September 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Despite those idiotic “Build the Wall” campaign ads, he didn’t seem to be a Trump-style racist when he took office in 2019. There was hope he’d acknowledge our sad history and move us toward a more equitable society. But he didn’t. And he isn’t. Maybe the Napoleonically ambitious DeSantis decided white nationalism was his ticket to the Republican presidential nomination. His racism is less overt than Trump’s or George Wallace’s but almost as damaging.

Why Is the DeSantis Campaign Stalling? Americans Don’t Like Imperial Governors.

August 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Why is Ron DeSantis’s campaign stalling? Current and former governors would say: Because he has become an imperial governor-– one who believes he is all-powerful and that all his decisions will be just applauded and never questioned or opposed.

DeSantis Wants Children to Be Ignorant, Intolerant and Narrow-Minded

August 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

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In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, teachers are expected to present a version of the world in which “gender” is not to be spoken of, “gay” likewise, there’s no climate crisis — the weather’s always changing! — Shakespeare needs to be toned down, the human body is disgusting, slavery had an upside, America is the best country that ever was and ever will be, and books that challenge any of these self-evident truths must be banned.

GOP Lawmaker Proposes 8-Year Term Limits for County Commissioners

August 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Turnover has not been an issue on the Flagler County Commission. (© FlaglerLive)

A House Republican on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment that would impose eight-year term limits on county commissioners. Rep. Michelle Salzman, R-Pensacola, filed the proposal (HJR 19) for consideration during the 2024 legislative session, which will start in January. But turnover has not been an issue on the Flagler County Commission.

Ex-Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat, Will Seek to Unseat Sen. Rick Scott

August 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Screenshot of Debbie Mucarsel-Powell from her campaign video.

Former South Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is now a candidate for U.S. Senate, announcing Tuesday morning that she is seeking to unseat Republican incumbent Rick Scott in 2024.

Ohio’s Message to Florida: There’s Still Hope for Democracy

August 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

It only looks bleak: a street in Elyria, Ohio, where at least a few voters rejected their Legislature's attempt at an end-run around democracy. (© FlaglerLive)

Terrified that an amendment giving women — not Gilead Republicans — control over their reproductive health would pass in November, Ohio’s right-wingers figured they’d change the rules in the middle of the game. But on Aug. 8, voters in this allegedly red state rejected a Republican-backed measure to make it harder for citizens to amend their constitution.

Hating Trump Is Corrupting Liberal Media

August 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 77 Comments

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The left’s partisan journalists are still so fixated on hating Donald Trump and making sure he never returns to power that they will never cover the blunders, failures and crimes of the Bidens. The liberal media’s response – “We don’t care. We hate Trump.”

Forced-Birth Reactionaries Fail to Rig the Game in Ohio

August 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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In a red Ohio referendum this week, forced-birth reactionaries got blown out by a whopping margin of 430,000 votes. No word yet on whether Roe v. Wade killer Donald Trump has aspirationally asked Republican election officials to find 430,001 votes.

DeSantis Ousts State Attorney Monique Worrell, a Black Democrat Elected with 67 Percent of Vote

August 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Monique Worrell, a Democrat, was elected State Attorney in 2020 with 67 percent of the vote. (Facebook)

Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended another elected prosecutor. This time it’s Monique Worrell of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, in Orange and Osceola counties, a Democrat who was elected in November 2020 and is the second African American to hold the position.

Candidates Lining Up to Run for Dave Sullivan’s County Commission Seat, Including Kim Carney and Nick Klufas

August 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Kim Craney, left, and Nick Klufas. (© FlaglerLive)

Former Flagler Beach City Commissioner Kim Carney joins a growing field for the District 3 seat Dave Sullivan will be relinquishing. The field so far includes two other Flagler Beach residents, Bill Clark and Tom Hutson, and does not yet formally include the race’s heavy-hitter: Nick Klufas, the two-term Palm Coast City Council member, who will soon announce.

Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich Join Rick Scott Re-Election Campaign

August 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Rick Scott issues a manifesto. (© FlaglerLive)

As part of his efforts to get reelected to the U.S. Senate next year, Republican Rick Scott unveiled his National Finance Committee Wednesday, featuring a number of current and former GOP lawmakers such as Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich.

Facing Cash Crunch and Skirting Rules, DeSantis Appears as ‘Special Guest’ at His Own Campaign Events

July 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

DeSantis has been taking a measure of his diminishing campaign. (Team DeSantis video)

As DeSantis deals with a cash crunch, firing staffers, a super PAC required by law to keep its distance from him is now being assigned more campaign tasks, enabling DeSantis to take advantage of a loophole allowing a candidate to appear as a special guest at a super PAC event.

ACLU Accused Florida Supreme Court of Abusing Its Authority on Recreational Pot Initiative

July 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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In a brief supporting a citizens’ initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use, the ACLU accuses the Florida Supreme Court of abusing its authority to strike proposed state constitutional amendments from the ballot.

The Republican Brand Returns to White Supremacy

July 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 73 Comments

A Klan rally in Tallahassee in 1977. (Robert Burke/Florida Memory)

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is another example of how the Republican brand is no longer bigger business and smaller government. It’s white supremacy. Their platform? White supremacy. Their political and social goals? White supremacy.

Palm Coast in Ugly Meeting Votes to Lower Tax Rate Substantially and Add New, Modest Fee for Now

July 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council faced a full house today as it considered next year's taxes and fees. (© FlaglerLive)

In another unseemly, disconcerting meeting that included coarse language and flaring tempers from the dais and rowdy and name-calling behavior from a floor thronged with residents, the Palm Coast City Council today substantially lowered the property tax rate in one vote and with another approved new fee or tax–a very modest one for now–on power bills.

Ron DeSantis’ Very Gay Ad

July 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Image from the DeSantis War Room

Ron DeSantis wants you to know he’s a manly man, a manlier man than any manly man ever born, with mighty currents of 100-proof androgen surging through his sinews. He made a video about it. Diane Roberts asks: how could this steaming pile of bovine excrement (and lightning bolts shooting out of the governor’s eyes) get released by his campaign?

Judge Refuses to Block Two Parts of Florida’s Newly Restrictive Election Law

July 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The new Florida voting law drew a drizzle of lawsuits. (© FlaglerLive)

One of those parts requires representatives of voter-registration groups to provide receipts to people who sign up to vote. The other part prevents people with certain felony convictions from “collecting or handling” voter-registration applications.

The Apostle Ron DeSantis

July 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Is anyone surprised Ron DeSantis said recently he wished he could have been one of the Apostles? Here’s the Good News, Ron. You don’t have to sigh moonily in a TV interview about what could’ve been.

We’re the Mommies for Liberty, and the Future Belongs to Us

July 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Ron DeSantis speaking to mommies for liberty in Philadelphia over the weekend. (Screen capture, WPTV)

I am a Mommy. A Mommy for Liberty. I will use my personal liberty to shield my precious children (and yours) from gays. And history. And Black people. And sex.  

Citing Florida’s ‘Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,’ Judge Blocks Parts of Election Law

July 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

One of Florida's two major parties doesn't like to make it easier for people to vote. (© FlaglerLive)

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, in a 58-page decision, issued a preliminary injunction against parts of the law that would prevent non-U.S. citizens from “collecting or handling” voter-registration applications and make it a felony for voter-registration group workers to keep personal information of voters.

Divine Right of DeSantis: Vengeful, Petty and Cruel

July 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

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DeSantis is using taxpayer money to punish his enemies, a warning to those who cross him. Through the budget, he’s pushing his hate-fueled vision onto us, trying to transform Florida into a subtropical version of Massachusetts under the Puritans: intolerant, ignorant, repressive, and cruel.

$1.25 Million Book Deal Drives Up DeSantis’s Net Worth

July 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to refer to his blue collar roots, growing up on the west coast of Florida, especially now that he has been campaigning for president. But a $1.25 million book deal helped drive up his net worth into the millionaires’ club in 2022.

U.S. Supreme Court Decisively Rejects Outlier Elections Theory Giving Unchecked Powers to States

June 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The "independent state legislature theory" would give state legislatures unchecked power over federal elections. (© FlaglerLive)

In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. By a vote of 6-3, the court rejected the so-called “independent state legislature theory” favored by a extreme Republicans.

So You Want to Recall a Council Member or Write an Ordinance? Palm Coast Codifies Process After 24 Years.

June 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Citizens will have a clearer roadmap to direct involvement in certain city matters, but it'll take work. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council in its 24th year is codifying its own referendum and recall process–the method by which residents may pitch or force the reconsideration of an ordinance, amend the city charter, or initiate a recall of a sitting council member.

Anti-Trans Politicians Take Pages from Nazi Playbook

June 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The sign in a Matanzas High School classroom proved unacceptable to Flagler County School Board member Christy Chong. (© FlaglerLive via Axon video)

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other GOP leaders are following the Nazi playbook, substituting transgender youth for the Jews. They industriously promote hatred, fear, and physical revulsion of this small group — also barely 1 percent of the population — and pretend it’s out of concern for children.

Ed Danko Announces Run for County Commission, Setting Up Primary Against George Hanns

June 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Ed Danko will run for a County Commission seat. (© FlaglerLive)

His third year on the Palm Coast City Council not yet completed, the peripatetic and willfully controversial Ed Danko today announced a run for a County Commission seat in the 2024 election, setting up a primary contest against former Commissioner George Hanns.

Two Elections and ‘Record’ Flagler Voter Registrations Adds Costs to Elections Supervisor’s Budget

June 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

New legislation keeps adding requirements on supervisors of elections, increasing costs. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Elections Supervisor Kaiti Lenhart told the County Commission this morning that the presidential year’s two elections, a record rate of voter registration, inflation and a spate of new legal requirements are adding costs to her office’s budget, which she presented to the county at a workshop.

In Surprise Victory for Voting Rights, Supreme Court Rejects Redistricting Map Diluting Black Vote

June 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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By a vote of 5-4, the justices issued a major voting rights decision, ruling that Alabama’s new congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act. Even more significantly, the court declined an invitation to adopt an interpretation of the act that would have made it much more difficult to challenge redistricting plans.

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