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The Comprehensive Voting Rights Protection Act of Florida
23-08

Reference:
Article VI, Section 4

Summary:
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This amendment ensures that no Florida citizen may be denied the right to vote based on race, ethnicity, religion, language, education, gender, sexual orientation, criminal conviction or sentence, incarceration, legal financial obligation, or any related ground. The only exceptions are no person convicted of terrorism, treason, or voter fraud, and no person adjudicated to be mentally incompetent, shall be qualified to vote until restoration of civil rights or removal of disability.

Sponsor:
Floridians for Redeemable People
Post Office Box 520337
Longwood, FL 32752-
(407) 576-2649
  Contact: Pam Cassidy, Chairperson

Signatures:
Statewide total needed for judicial and financial impact review (signed by 25% of voters required by s. 3, Art. XI of the State Constitution in one-half of the congressional districts): 222,881 
Statewide total needed to make ballot position (signed by 8% of the voters in at least one-half of Florida's congressional districts and in the state as whole as of the last presidential election): 891,523 
Statewide total currently valid: 3*
Congressional district totals needed for judicial and economic reviews and ballot placement, with currently valid signatures: View by District by County
*Statewide and congressional district totals for ballot position are NOT OFFICAL until the Secretary of State determines the requisite signatures have been obtained and issues a certificate of ballot position. Once an initiative petition is certified for ballot position, total currently valid may exceed the official totals at time of certification. For status on ballot position, see Status Table below.
 
To find out the signature threshold required in each Congressional District for review and ballot position, the current number of verified signatures in each Congressional District by county, and how many Congressional Districts may have met or exceeded signature thresholds, click the link above titled "View by District by County".

Status: Active
Approval Date: 09/14/2023 
Undue Burden:  
Made Review:  
Attorney General:  
Sent to Supreme Court:  
Supreme Court Ruling:  
SC Ruling Date:  
Financial Impact Statement Date:  
SC Approval of Financial Impact Statement:  
Made Ballot:  
Ballot Number: 0  
Election Year: 2026 




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