Florida supervisors of elections are alerting voters that unofficial voter registration cards, sent by a third-party organization, may arrive in mailboxes in the coming days.<\/p>\n
Leon County Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley says that while he supports the goal of registering voters, much of the information used by the third-party group is inaccurate or outdated.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of these targeted mailings will be to the name of a pet or the name of a child in the household,\u201d Earley said. \u201cIt looks kind of like it\u2019s coming from us. So, we get complaints every year about this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earley says anyone already registered to vote doesn\u2019t need to do anything, and anyone wanting to register to vote should contact their local elections supervisor.<\/p>\n
The mailings are from a group called the Voter Participation Center, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit. On its website, the center states it uses \u201cdata-driven methods of direct mail and digital engagement to register to vote and turn out to vote members of the New American Majority — people of color, unmarried women, and young people — with the end goal of helping to ensure a representative electorate in US elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
Florida currently has nearly 13.4 million registered voters. The deadline to register for August\u2019s primary election is July 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida supervisors of elections are alerting voters that unofficial voter registration cards, sent by a third-party organization, may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-210334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}