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

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

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.