Renzo DowneyNovember 3, 2022
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Are transplants to Florida driving a purple state redder?
Tag: Ion SanchoImage via Palatka Main Street.
Renzo DowneyNovember 3, 2022Renzo DowneySeptember 30, 2022
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Secretary of State Cord Byrd is evaluating conditions in affected counties as important election deadlines loom.
Renzo DowneySeptember 27, 2022
5min0
‘The only worse possible time this could come is right before an election.’
Scott PowersApril 16, 2020
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If coronavirus continues, Democrats say mail ballots might be the only safe way to vote.
Staff ReportsNovember 8, 2016
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State Rep. Alan Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat who was term-limited this year, has lost a bid for Leon County elections supervisor. In a runoff election for the nonpartisan post, Williams lost the race to Mark Earley, the veteran aide and heir-apparent to Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho, who is retiring. By 9 p.m., with 120 of 153 precincts reporting, Williams had […]
Ryan RayApril 18, 2016
3min435
U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham said she is disappointed in Monday’s district to uphold redrawn U.S. House maps. Graham responded to news that a federal panel struck down objections to a recent redistricting decision filed by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown who, like Graham, will now see radical changes to her congressional district. “I’m disappointed the Second Congressional District will […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 16, 2016
8min565
There may be a month until Florida’s presidential preference primary, but thousands of Sunshine State voters are already casting their ballots. Elections offices across the state have sent about 1.8 million absentee, or vote by mail, ballots this election cycle. About 47 percent of those ballots went to registered Republicans; while 40 percent were sent […]
Drew WilsonJanuary 7, 2016
3min408
The chairwoman of the Florida Commission on Offender Review said Thursday that she will run to be the next Leon County Supervisor of Elections. Tena Pate joins supervisor of elections employee Mark Earley and termed-out Democratic Rep. Alan Williams in the race to take over for current Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho. In her announcement, Pate said she […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJanuary 7, 2016
4min374
Some Florida voters could be casting their ballots around the same time as voters in early voting states. Thousands of vote-by-mail, or absentee, ballots are expected to be sent out in advance of Florida’s presidential preference primary. According to the Florida Division of Elections, the first wave of mail ballots will by sent to military […]
Jim RosicaOctober 2, 20153min396
Current state Rep. Alan Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat, has filed to run for Leon County Supervisor of Elections in 2016, succeeding retiring supervisor Ion Sancho. Williams, first elected to the Florida House in 2008, is term limited. He filed paperwork for the local office on Thursday, online records show. He is chair of the Florida […]