Floridians Protecting Freedom has submitted 911,169 valid signatures to place an initiative on the Nov. 2024 ballot that would prohibit any state laws that restrict, delay, penalize, or ban abortion before fetal viability.
To qualify for the ballot, 891,523 valid signatures (equal to 8% of the total votes cast in the last presidential election) were required. The campaign reported submitting 1.4 million raw signatures in total. Florida has a signature distribution requirement, meaning signatures equaling at least 8% of the district-wide vote in the last presidential election be collected from at least half (14) of the state’s 28 congressional districts. The Florida Division of Elections count showed that, as of Jan. 5, the campaign had reached the signature requirement in 17 of the 28 counties.
The amendment will appear on the 2024 ballot in Florida if the state Supreme Court approves of the measure’s ballot language. As part of Florida’s initiative process, the attorney general is required to petition the Florida Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on the measure’s compliance with the single-subject rule, the appropriateness of the title and summary, and whether or not the measure “is facially invalid under the United States Constitution.” The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case on Feb. 7, 2024.
