Florida Initiative for Electoral Reform

With the purchase of new voting machines in 2016, the City of Sarasota can honor voters' wishes and finally implement ranked choice voting (instant runoff voting). Local reformers are holding an educational meeting on the issue on Sunday, April 9th.

Student organizations in Florida have called on the Legislature to establish an explicit right to vote, a task force on voting to expand and improve voting access, and repeal 2011's House Bill 1355.

Florida Initiative for Electoral Reform (FLIER) believes that the retaliatory nature of Amendment 12 would provide state university students with nothing more than a chilling effect over student representation in the higher education system.

Instead of debating how to best pack and crack voters, Broward County should consider a better solution. FLIER calls on Broward County to consider proportional representation in the interests of the public and a functional representative democracy.

Multi-member super districts, elected through proportional representation, are a better idea to resolve Florida's redistricting fight.

Without big bank accounts for lobbying or campaign contributions, Florida's college and university students are finding out the hard way about how little "representative democracy" they have in the state's two-party plutocracy.

On February 2nd, the Florida College System Student Government Association, representing some 1 million of Florida's state and community college students, will gather in Tallahassee to push the Legislature on voting rights and voting access issues.

The Florida Student Association, representing Florida’s 330,000 university students, calls for the repeal of HB 1355 while offering positive alternatives that protect voting rights, and improve access to voting, in the interests of all Floridians.

Spurred on by Palm Beach State College's Boca Raton campus Student Government Association, a statewide group representing Florida's 1 million state college students proposes the repeal of HB 1355 and improvement of access to voting.

While voters' attention is focused on the Legislature, local officials are busy gerrymandering county and city districts. FLIER urges Florida's localities, that wish to use districts, to adopt a transparent and objective redistricting process.