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Let Prison Inmates Vote

June 4, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

In the era of mass incarceration, forbidding inmate voting, disenfranchising them after release, and counting them as residents where they’re imprisoned are all components of prison gerrymandering.

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown Goes to Court
To Stop Her District From Heading West

August 7, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Brown is hoping to intervene in the lawsuit and get judges to order the Legislature not to reorient the district, which currently ambles from Jacksonville to Orlando.

Florida Legislature Tells Supreme Court That Fair District Amendment Is “Unenforceable”

December 21, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Lawyers for the Legislature told the Florida Supreme Court in a brief filed late Friday that part of a state ban on political gerrymandering violates the U.S. Constitution.

Far From Over, Florida’s Redistricting Wrangles Now Focus on State Senate Boundaries

September 8, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The case on redistricting State Senate boundaries is continuing, and could eventually lead to new districts for the 40-member upper chamber, which, like the state House, is currently dominated by Republicans.

Flagler and St. Johns Untouched But District 6 Loses Much of Putnam in Redistricting

August 12, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County was unaffected, but District 6 had previously included most of Putnam County. It now includes only the southeastern quadrant of Putnam. The changes are not likely to change the ideological make-up of the district, which tilts Republican.

Judge Gives Legislature 2-Week Deadline to Redraw Districts, Upending Primary

August 2, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Circuit Judge Terry Lewis also the state and local elections supervisors to come up with a new voting schedule for any districts–likely to include Flagler’s–that lawmakers would have to redraw in the wake of his ruling last month that the current congressional map violates the Florida Constitution.

Judge Wary of Redrawing Area’s
Congressional Map Before November Election

July 24, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Rep. Ron DeSantis, whose congressional district flanks one of the two districts that will have to be redrawn, will have to wait for a judge's decision to know whether the redrawing will take place before or after November. (© FlaglerLive)

So far, the Legislature has declined to appeal Lewis’ ruling, and the state’s attorneys say lawmakers will redraw the map in time for the 2016 elections. But lawyers for the voting-rights groups and voters who sued to overturn the map under the Constitution’s anti-gerrymandering standards say that’s too late.

Judge Throws Out Two of Florida’s Redrawn Congressional Districts, Affecting Flagler

July 11, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

District 5 wraps itself around much of the western flank of District 6, which includes all of Flagler County. If District 5 is re-drawn, it would likely affect District 6, which is currently represented by Republican Ron DeSantis.

Congressman Ron DeSantis: A Tea Party Fanatic Who’s Earned His Walking Papers

October 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

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Ron DeSantis, who represents Flagler County, is not interested in governance. A standard-issue tea party reactionary, he’s a saboteur. He derails, with self-righteous bombast and distortions. He is part of the suicidal extremists willing to plunge the country in default over Obamacare, rather than fight to amend it legislatively. He should pay the price of his recklessness.

Florida Supreme Court Green-Lights Trial Challenging Fairness of GOP Redistricting

July 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The 5-2 ruling, which fell along common ideological lines on the court, allows a coalition of voting-rights groups to continue trying to prove that the Senate maps drawn in 2012 violate the anti-gerrymandering “Fair Districts” standards added to the Florida Constitution two years earlier.

Senate’s New Redistricting Map: Flagler District Whole Again, With St. Johns and Putnam

March 17, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The chairman of the Senate Reapportionment Committee unveiled a new proposal for legislative districts Saturday to answer criticisms from the Florida Supreme Court. The plan creates a much more cohesive district for Flagler.

Special Session of the Legislature Begins Wednesday to Fix Senate’s Gerrymandering

March 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Citing gerrymandering, the Florida Supreme Court threw out eight of the 40 Senate districts, including Flagler County’s District 6, along with the numbering system, which means that most districts have to be redrawn as a special session begins Wednesday.

Judge Throws Out Challenge to Fair District Amendment, Panicking Motley Incumbents

September 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Thanks to Piet Mondrian.

Federal District Judge Ursula Ungaro rejected the argument that the anti-gerrymandering amendment allows voters to meddle in legislative redistricting. Weird alliances between incumbent Democrats and Republicans have formed to keep fighting the voter-approved amendment.

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