Elections and Voting

Tea Party to Recount Votes in Allen West Congressional Loss

Tea Party to Recount Ballots in Allen West Congressional Loss

A Texas-based Tea Party organization and the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections have agreed on a plan to provide the group access to county voting records from the 2012 federal election and voter registration and other records going back to 2009. See also: - Allen West Will Soon Be an Ex-Con ... More >>

Election Problems? Blame These Five

I-4 Corridor Predicts Florida for Romney

New Laws in Dozens of States Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall

Broward County Has Lowest Republican Primary Voter Turnout in Florida

​As you may have already heard 3 million or 4 million times, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Florida Republican primary last night with 46.4 percent of the vote -- though more than seven in ten Broward Republicans didn't even bother showing up to the polls.Only 28.7 percent of regist ... More >>

Earl Rynerson Gets a Supporter to Run for Fort Lauderdale Mayor to Force a Primary

​Earl Rynerson, who's running for Fort Lauderdale mayor (again) against current Mayor Jack Seiler, deployed an interesting campaign strategy in his effort to get elected -- admittedly convincing someone else to run for mayor to force a primary election.Rynerson doesn't specifically use the word, b ... More >>

Connie Mack Enters U.S. Senate Race With 23-Point Lead Over Other GOP Hopefuls

FlickrConnie Mack​Whereas "someone else/not sure" was the overwhelming leader in previous polls for the Republican nomination in next year's U.S. Senate race, Rep. Connie Mack's entrance into the race changes things a bit.Mack enters with the support of 32 percent of Republican voters, according t ... More >>

Marco Rubio Butt-Kissing Won't Help GOP Candidates Win Florida, According to Poll

​There's been a common theme among this year's GOP presidential candidates -- firmly planting their lips on the buttcheeks of Sen. Marco Rubio and dropping his name as a potential running mate.If that's a ploy to win Florida in a general election, it won't help, according to survey results release ... More >>

New Voting Laws in Florida and 13 Other States May Affect 5 Million Eligible Voters, Study Says

​New voting laws passed in 14 states -- states that control 171 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a presidential election -- could make voting "significantly harder" for more than 5 million people who are actually eligible to vote, according to a new study.As many as 1 million of those peop ... More >>

Mitt Romney Leads New Florida Poll; Ron Paul Most Unfavorable Candidate but Places Fourth

​With this afternoon's release of Public Policy Polling's survey of Florida Republican voters, Florida became the first Southern state polled by the firm that didn't select Texas Gov. Rick Perry as its front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.Instead, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ... More >>

Patrick Murphy Raising Tons of Cash in Bid to Unseat Allen West

Murphy for CongressPatrick Murphy​We're still a pair of Novembers away from seeing the fate of Rep. Allen West's congressional seat, but 28-year-old Patrick Murphy looks like he's already giving the congressman a run for his money -- lots and lots of money.Murphy announced that he raised $450,000 ... More >>

Florida Republicans Crack Down On Voting

Nothing but trouble.​The Florida House passed a highly controversial overhaul of election laws on Thursday, which critics say would grossly undermine the fabric of democracy and help ensure a Republican victory in the 2012 election.Supporters of the legislation say that the changes would prevent v ... More >>

27-Year-Old Is Trying to Run for President -- You Too Can Be a "Presidential Candidate"

via Ryan Lipner​The Constitution dictates that in addition to being a citizen and a U.S. resident for at least 14 years, a presidential candidate must be at least 35 years old. Calling the last requirement "age discrimination," 27-year-old South Floridian Ryan Lipner is plowing forward with his qu ... More >>

Fantasy Voter Fraud

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200's dismissal.

Stacy Ritter Received Thousands in Dubious Campaign Reimbursements Too

Here's what I don't understand about the Florida Elections Commission investigation of Stacy Ritter: Why weren't there more charges? As I reported yesterday, four of the charges against Ritter pertain to reimbursements made by her 2008 campaign to her lobbyist husband, Russ Klenet, for expensi ... More >>

Bombshell: Stacy Ritter's Campaign Fund Fed Hubby's High Life

Klenet and Ritter​A recently released report from the Florida Elections Commission shows that Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter's 2008 campaign was an utter mess, replete with bookkeeping errors, acceptance of excessive contributions from special interests, failure to report contribu ... More >>

Kendrick Meek Lost Rural Florida, Thanks to Racist Dixiecrats (UPDATED)

Greene snatched two thirds of the vote from Meek in some rural counties.​U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek had a lot of reasons to feel good about his primary win last week over Jeff Greene. Despite recent polls that showed Greene doing well, Meek trounced him with 57 percent of the vote.But there's also so ... More >>

The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

If Money-Bundlers Are Going to Jail, We're Gonna Need More Jails

Flickr: Jeremy JohnstoneFor campaigning politicians, cash is better by the bundle.​As word spread that Scott Rothstein's associates might be charged in the federal investigation for circumventing campaign finance laws, it must have made a whole lot of Broward folks anxious. If you work for a devel ... More >>

Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter and Sheriff Al Lamberti Face Campaign Finance Investigations

Legislators Pay Lip Service to Dreaded Compromise

FLHouse.govHasnerCompromise is what distinguishes the effective, conscientious governments from the dysfunctional ones, and the lack of it has been a drag on the Florida Legislature for some time. One would think that this year's gaping, $6 billion budget hole would make compromisers out of the stub ... More >>

Liveblogging the Muni Election

The brains of the operation 8:31 Welcome to the Juice muni elections liveblog. I will be doing the play-by-play. At my left is the color commentator, a highly flatulent greyhound who somehow managed to cast a ballot (for Al Capellini, natch) and has been flaunting her "My Vote Counted" sticker to al ... More >>

Banana Republic

America downscales

Barack Obama wins -- and So Does South Florida

It's a victory just to have an election pass without a local embarrassment

Election Office Denying New Voters

Privacy Schmivacy

Tell the world how you vote!

Broward County Absentee Ballots Carry Party Affiliation

Critics fear labeling on return envelopes could lead to ballots getting intentionally lost

Hova For Hope: Free Miami Jay-Z Concert this Sunday for Obama!

Early Voting = Early Attacks

Vote for Voting

The Long March

Show Us Some Green

America's most colorful third party could use some attention — and some cash.

Incredible Turnout

Letters for February 14-20, 2008

Election Shocker: Caletka Challenges Rodstrom

What The Deerfield Observer Is Afraid To Print

Vote Interrupted

Were the absentee ballots lost or stolen? Either way, it's a crime.

Third Man

Fort Lauderdale's John B. Anderson ran for president in 1980 and paved the way for spoiler candidates

V Day

Suffrage in the city

Last Candidate Standing

Davie's Richard Grayson has built a political career of joke campaigns

Out of Touch

You press the screen. The machine tells you that your vote has been counted. But how can you be sure?

Grumbling from the Grassroots

The political demise of mayoral candidate Tim Smith heralds a new age in Fort Lauderdale politics

Cashed

Labors to legalize bud in Florida have gone as sour as week-old bong water

Felon Follies

A problem that marred the 2000 ballot is back

The Dania Dilemma

2000 redux: Voting really is what it used to be in Dania Beach.

Best Political Gaffe

Palm Beach County elections

One Man, One Vote

Haitian immigrants like Gerlyn Cadet know in their marrow that a ballot is a precious thing. But this election leaves them feeling robbed.

Hollywood's True Colors

Districting in Hollywood was supposed to ensure at least one minority candidate on the commission. Think again.

The Real McCain

The candidate poses as a campaign-finance reformer as he accepts cash from special interests

Face Off

John Coleman and his fellow reform candidates in Hollywood face an uphill battle against mayor Mara and Co.