Volunteer with the League of Women Voters
Volunteers with the League of Women Voters of Florida are often seen at farmers markets, book clubs, parades, and other gathering places, collecting petitions and raising awareness on new campaigns. The League in recent years has become a flag bearer for the citizens initiative process that allows ordinary Floridians to bypass lawmakers and amend the state constitution.
League volunteers were instrumental in the success of the ballot measures that raised the minimum wage in 2020 and restored the right to vote for those convicted of a felony in 2018. Last year, they helped the effort to collect the roughly one million signatures that placed measures to legalize abortion rights and marijuana on Florida’s ballot.
But a new law, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday, will turn common tactics the League uses to gather signatures into a criminal offense.
