Arguments in federal court continued this week on whether Georgia’s secretary of state’s office, the defendant in a lawsuit, illegally purged an estimated 198,000 Georgia residents from the state’s voting rolls.

With just 20 days to the Nov. 3rd general elections, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden turned his attention to a voting bloc that is usually taken for granted in the battleground state of Florida – Caribbean American voters.

The DNC released a new paid digital ad this week in English and Spanish featuring actress America Ferrera. In the ads, Ferrera urges Latino voters to get out and make their voices heard this election year. 

MIAMI – Miami-Dade County bid a fond farewell to its term-limited Mayor and County Commissioners on Nov. 6 at a ceremony held at PortMiami.

Mike Bloomberg’s Independence USA PAC began airing a new ad in support of Vice President Joe Biden in Florida. The TV ad will run statewide on broadcast and cable.  

The Miami Herald recently announced their runoff recommendations for the Miami-Dade School Board. Commissioner Dennis C. Moss was their recommendation for the Miami-Dade School Board District 9.  

“Today for the first time in many, many months I was filled with hope for the future of our great nation when Joe Biden officially became our president-elect and Kamala Harris made history as both the first woman and first black woman to be elected vice president of the United States. Finally, we can begin to put behind us Donald Trump’s reality TV presidency and will have a commander-in-chief who will actually deal with reality, follow the science, and lead us out of the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty that have gripped the United States for nearly a year. 

MIAMI-DADE – Miami-Dade County Chairwoman Audrey M. Edmonson, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and other officials commemorated COVID-19 victims on Oct. 13 at a new memorial to coronavirus victims at Simonhoff Park in Liberty City.

Tallahassee—Florida is famous for its razor thin statewide election margins.  And for the last twenty years, the nail-biting phenomenon has been the only certainty voters and candidates are assured of when all the ballots are counted. In Election 2020 the Florida chapters of the nation’s oldest African American Greek sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha has launched an effort to increase Black voter participation in rural counties with significant Black voter population.

Tallahassee, FL – Today, Hawkfish CEO Josh Mendelsohn and Florida Democratic strategist and CEO of Unite the Country PAC Steve Schale were joined by BlackPAC Executive Director Adrianne Shropshire for a third press briefing to discuss the latest early vote numbers among Black voters in Florida. 

Mike Bloomberg and Miami-Dade County Democratic Executive Committee (DEC) announced today a $500,000 contribution from Mike Bloomberg to strengthen canvassing and Get Out the Vote efforts across the county. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla – On Friday, October 9, a coalition of voting rights organizations reacted to a court’s decision not to extend Florida’s voter registration deadline after the state’s online registration system crashed on Monday. The lawsuit, filed by Advancement Project National Office, Demos, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer on behalf of the Dream Defenders, New Florida Majority, Organize Florida, and the Florida Immigrant Coalition asserted that thousands of Floridians had been disenfranchised by the system’s technical difficulties on the last day of voter registration. The Plaintiffs also asserted that Florida’s midday extension of the registration deadline on Tuesday was insufficient to notify all Floridians who were unable to register because of the system’s failure. The Plaintiffs released the following statement.