Jacob OglesJanuary 20, 2019
4min344
Removal of the Palm Beach Supervisor sparked partisan reaction statewide.
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Jacob OglesJanuary 20, 2019Jacob OglesNovember 28, 2018
6min314
As Florida looks again to election reform, the current leader of the state’s elections supervisors association offered one crucial request to lawmakers: Don’t rush changes. “If you fix something, you have to give us time to implement and iron the bugs out of whatever fix you make before you decide it isn’t working,” said Paul […]
Guest AuthorNovember 20, 2018
13min383
As you probably know, Florida law required a machine recount in the races for Governor, Senate and Agriculture Commissioner, because there was less than a 0.5 percent difference in the statewide vote tallies for each of those races. After the machine recount, there was a manual recount for both the Senate and Commissioner of Agriculture, […]
Jacob OglesNovember 19, 2018
8min870
A 12-day recount process in Florida ultimately failed to change the outcome of three statewide races. But make no mistake, the result of this ballot scrutiny was historic. For starters, of course, this election marked the first time the Florida vote was close enough to send three statewide races—U.S. Senate, Governor and Agriculture Commissioner—to a […]
Blake DowlingNovember 19, 2018
6min213
According to The New York Times, Brenda Snipes, the Supervisor of Elections in Broward County resigned. “It has been my passion and honor to serve as the Supervisor of Elections for Broward County voters,” she said in a letter to Gov. Rick Scott. Let’s go back in time, on election night in 2000 some media […]
Jacob OglesNovember 18, 2018
4min430
A complete hand recount of a close U.S. Senate race and an even tighter Agriculture Commissioner contest ultimately produced no change in outcome. Election officials in Florida’s 67 counties faced a noon deadline today to submit results of a manual recount on two statewide races separated by less than a 0.25 percent. In the high-profile […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 16, 2018
9min1013
Republican Ron DeSantis, the 40-year-old former three-term Congressman, has defeated Democrat Andrew Gillum to become the next Governor of Florida after a mandated machine recount. The win was just 0.4 percent, a spread of 33,652 votes. The gubernatorial race, like the U.S. Senate and Agriculture Commissioner contests, had margins under the 0.50 percent threshold that triggers a recount. With the margin more than […]
Staff ReportsNovember 14, 2018
3min444
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has waded into partisan waters increasingly during Florida’s triple recount, as one might expect from one of Florida’s leading Republicans. However, it wasn’t until Wednesday morning that he offered comment from his official perch. “I’m not against the recount. A recount is mandated by law and should happen. The recount should happen, […]
Jacob OglesNovember 12, 2018
6min1318
Outgoing Attorney General Pam Bondi on Sunday scolded the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for declining so far to investigate the tabulation of votes in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Bondi, a Tampa Republican, also demanded Secretary of State Ken Detzner report all election irregularities in the Democratic-leaning counties to the Office of Statewide Prosecution, […]
Jacob OglesNovember 11, 2018
4min409
Republican Senate hopeful Rick Scott told Fox News that Democratic opponent Bill Nelson wants fraudulent ballots to count in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. “Sen. Nelson is clearly trying to commit fraud to try and win this election,” Scott said on Fox News Sunday. “That’s all this is.” Scott spoke to the cable news network about […]