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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could have 2024 political ambitions beyond the Sunshine State, depending on how his 2022 re-election campaign goes. Now he’s in the spotlight after signing a bill adding more restrictions on drop boxes and more, NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky explains.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Republican-backed elections bill that places restrictions on voting by mail and ballot drop boxes while in South Florida on Thursday.

Voting rights advocates are actually piling up some wins in dozens of state capitals in their fight to expand access to mail and early voting ballots. States like Florida, Georgia, and Texas still present their biggest challenges in decades.

It’s not all bad news for those concerned about restrictive access to the ballot boxes going forward.

Ballot drop boxes were enormously popular during the 2020 election

DeSantis is now advocating a series of new changes to Florida election law that would change how mail ballots are requested, where they can be dropped off, and how many get rejected because of signature mismatches.

MIAMI, Fla. – When then-Congressman Ron DeSantis cast his mail ballot for Florida’s primary election in 2016, election workers in his hometown flagged the signature as a mismatch. When DeSantis provided the canvassing board a new signature as a backup to the signatures already on file, they determined that handwriting also had “no similarities” to the signature on DeSantis’ ballot…

“Emancipation,” a slave drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, will no longer be filmed in Georgia due to the passage of a restrictive voting law.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on Democratic candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe being endorsed by Gov. Ralph Northam ahead of the June 8 primary.

Major League Baseball announced it will move the events after the city passed a controversial voting bill.

A bipartisan group of Wisconsin lawmakers proposed a new kind of election system for Congressional races on Friday, arguing that the state’s existing system exacerbates partisanship and discourages compromise, NBC News reports.

The conservative Honest Elections Project is proposing new voting restrictions and election safeguards.

Black voters have fueled big Democratic wins in Georgia, and Republicans are trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again

Republicans in dozens of states are moving to restrict access to mail voting after former President Donald Trump’s false insistence that the November election was stolen from him

Virginia Republicans hoping to break a 12-year losing streak in statewide elections face an additional self-imposed obstacle this year: They still have no idea how they will choose their nominee for governor

A settlement has been reached in one of the largest lawsuits filed under the 1965 Voting Rights Act over providing Spanish-language ballots and assistance to Puerto Rican voters in 32 Florida counties. The settlement provides for Spanish language ballots, election material, hotlines, options on websites, assistance at polls, and signs at election supervisors’ offices. “We’re very pleased with what the…

Black Lives Matter, World Health Organization, former President Donald Trump and others also receive nomination.

Republican efforts to restrict voting access are taking shape in statehouses across the country with a flurry of legislation aimed at limiting measures that led to record turnout in the 2020 presidential election.