Lives Lived: In addition to being a master of the jazz vibraphone, Roy Ayers was a leader in the movement that added electric ...

Republican legislators are determined to make it all but impossible for citizens and interest groups to pursue ballot ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis used of millions of dollars in state money to battle abortion and marijuana ballot measures last year. Now ...

Florida lawmakers are moving forward with new restrictions certain to make it more difficult and costly to get ballot measures before voters.

Florida’s Legislature is eyeing changes to the ballot initiative process after last year’s intense fight over two proposed amendments on abortion access and recreational marijuana. Opponents ...

The bill would place a number of new restrictions on people and groups seeking to make changes to the Florida Constitution.

A bill would change how Floridians place constitutional amendments on the ballot, and it would prevent the use of taxpayer ...

Republican lawmakers want to add restrictions to the process that allows Floridians to place constitutional amendments on the ...

Related Florida civil, voting rights groups condemn DeSantis’ push to restrict ballot initiatives: Groups including Equal Ground, the ACLU of Florida and the NAACP Florida State Conference ...

Florida’s ballot initiative process has a higher threshold than many states that allow residents to amend their constitutions. It requires almost a million signatures for a proposal to get on ...

Democracy is dying — not in darkness, but in plain sight at the Florida Capitol. Republican legislators want to make it outrageously expensive for citizens to launch future ballot initiatives ...