At a recent COS Communications Team meeting, Denah Butts, Florida State Director, solicited ideas for how COS can encourage citizen participation in the election process. COS regional directors, district captains, and legislative liaisons will certainly help provide information.
For example, last year Cliff Gerich, District Captain in The Villages, wrote three blogs about preventing election fraud. The first one is an overview, the second discusses being a poll worker or watcher, the third blog offers more ideas to secure election integrity. Those will be reviewed and updated if necessary.
COS team members see getting involved in a political party as a key to the inside track for information. Party executive committees decide which candidates the party will endorse at the national nominating convention. If voters are not happy with the candidates proposed by their party, all they have to do is get to work. At this point in the conversation one member quipped,
Where to begin?
If you think you might want to help safeguard our most precious right of representative government, start by learning your way around the official Florida sites.
The Florida Division of Elections is the official authority on voting information for the state. This page includes election dates, deadlines to register, vote-by mail details, and more.
Even more important than statewide regulations are details about specific local rules from your own county supervisor.
This year Seminole County required all mail-in voters to re-register. Seminole County also offers the ability to track your ballot if you sign up for that service.
Each county supervisor of elections decides when poll workers have to sign up in order to complete required training. The state requires training of two or three hours to be completed twenty days before the election, but that can be scheduled any time.
If you are not yet registered to vote, please Register Here.
Florida recognizes two major political parties, Democrats and Republicans. Voters who are registered with either party may vote in their party’s primary election in March 2024. In Florida the primary is called a PPP election, Presidential Preference Primary Election.
To learn more about election integrity safeguards read this three-page PDF document.
We are blessed to live in a country designed with checks and balances intended to prevent lopsided abuse of power. Our Constitution is the framework that guarantees your rights to free speech and redress of grievances. This is your opportunity to speak up.
Join the group that is using Article V of the Constitution to save our Constitution.
