Tag Archives: voting rights
Florida voter rolls during reconstruction
Every now and then especially on Holiday weekends I explore through Florida Memory, the outstanding site from the Division of Library & Information Services. This weekend I came across this gem from the Reconstruction era – The voter roles for the state from 1867. The Fifteenth Amendment had yet to be ratified but Republican-led reconstruction […]
Zest of the Day: FL Sec’y of State issues order to restrict absentee voting
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, Secretary of State Ken Detzner has issued a directive to Supervisors of Elections in all 67 counties instructing them to make the absentee voting process more difficult. Specifically, Detzner — a former lobbyist and Jeb Bush appointee brought on by Gov. Rick Scott last year — has directed SOEs to […]
The Florida Squeeze 