Florida Bill to Require Initiatives to Pass with 66.67% of Vote Advances

Posted on by February 4, 2024
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On January 29, the Florida House Ethics, Elections and Open Government subcommittee (part of the State Affairs Committee) passed HJR 335, to require statewide initiatives to pass with 66.67% of the vote. The bill is sponsored by Representative Rick Roth (R-West Palm Beach).

If the bill passes the legislature, voters would vote on the idea in November 2024. If it appears on the ballot it will need 60% in order to pass.

An identical bill passed the Florida House in 2023, but it did not pass the State Senate.

Cato.org Blog Post by Walter Olson on Recent Paper That Evaluates Trump’s Stolen Election Claims

Posted on by February 4, 2024
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Here is a blog post from Friday, February 2 that reviews a recent study by Justin Grimmer and Abhinav Ramaswamy of the Democracy and Polarization Lab at Stanford University that analyses Trump’s various fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election and concludes that they are essentially 100% total bunk.

New Mexico Bill to Criminalize False Certifications of Presidential Electors Advances

Posted on by February 4, 2024
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On February 2, the New Mexico House Judiciary Committee passed HB 19. It makes it a felony for anyone to send the National Archives a certification that a slate of particular presidential electors have been elected, if in fact those candidates have not been elected. In the 2020 election, there were several states in which the Republican candidates for presidential elector sent such certifications, even though the official election returns showed they had been defeated.

The bill is sponsored by Representative Gail Chasey (D-Albuquerque), the Majority Floor Leader.