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After watching their once formidable advantage in registered voters evaporate and losing an embarrassing amount of ground in South Florida in the last presidential election, Florida Democrats say they’ve received the message and are going to change. Their solution is to kick off what they’re calling an unprecedented, well-funded effort to register voters. SNIP Democratic decline Republicans in Florida have been pouring money and people into registering voters and then mobilizing those voters to turn out in elections. The trend is unmistakable: Republicans have been growing their numbers faster than Democrats. In October 2021, Republican voter registrations overtook Democrats in...

It seems that Democrats are openly trying to steal the elections in Florida. Friday night, GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said he was removed by riot police in Broward County as he captured officials secretly loading boxes onto trucks outside the Broward County election supervisor’s office. “I took this video as the riot police removed me from where trucks were secretly loading stuff in/out of Broward Supervisors office. All this while they are violating constitutional rights & a court order!” Gaetz tweeted.

The arrival of more than than 130,000 Puerto Ricans in Florida since Hurricane Maria has some officials anticipating a political shakeup in a battleground state dominated by the Republican party. Both parties are actively courting new arrivals to Florida, which President Donald Trump won last year by 112,000 votes out of 9.6 million cast. Many Puerto Ricans have expressed outrage over Trump's handling of the storm but have applauded efforts by Republican Gov. Rick Scott to welcome them. As U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans can vote in federal elections when they move to the mainland. Newcomers must register as voters by...

Universal Press Syndicate Columnist Ann Coulter has not responded to a Florida elections office request that she explain why she allegedly voted earlier this year in a precinct that wasn't hers. That's according to a newspaper column by Palm Beach Post columnist Jose Lambiet, who has reported several times about Coulter's Florida voting problem...... "The blonde Democrat slayer has not responded to an April letter from the Supervisor of Elections office asking her to explain why she voted in a Town of Palm Beach precinct that wasn't hers earlier this year. The elctions office again tried to contact her last...

Crist adds $1.5 million to campaign war chest John Kennedy Tallahassee Bureau Chief October 2, 2005 TALLAHASSEE -- Attorney General Charlie Crist said Saturday that he has raised more than $1.5 million in his campaign for governor during the latest fund-raising quarter. This brings his campaign total to more than $5.3 million, records filed with the state elections office show. Crist said he expects to release final totals for the quarter that ended Friday later this week, with detailed reports due the following week. Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, Crist's rival for the Republican nomination, had no plans to release...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Election officials said a new rule barring hand recounts in 15 counties with touchscreen voting systems will remain in place until after Tuesday's primary — despite a judge's invalidation of the rule... Florida's voting system has been under scrutiny since 2000, when it took five weeks of legal maneuvering and some recounting before Republican George W. Bush was declared president over Democrat Al Gore

Murder by Order of Judge George Greer Judge George Greer has ordered the murder of Terri Schiavo. Terri was brain damaged under mysterious circumstances a number of years ago. However, she is not in a coma. She's alive, awake, responsive – not in a persistent vegetative state - contrary to the claims of the judge. However, she is unable to feed herself, so the judge ordered the removal of her feeding tube, effectively condemning her to a painful death by dehydration. If you watch Terri Schiavo on video, you can see for yourself that she is responsive and not in...

FORT LAUDERDALE -- Political consultant Ellyn Bogdanoff of Fort Lauderdale won a special election for state House District 91 on Tuesday evening, defeating her closest rival, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Mayor Oliver Parker, apparently by a mere 12 votes. A special recount has been ordered for Thursday in the district, which spans from southeast Palm Beach County through Broward County's coastal cities into Dania Beach.

<p>It's the top of the fourth on a chilly night in the Bronx and New York Yankees fan Frank Larocca is examining his All-Star ballot.</p> <p>For the American League, he's going for the cream of the crop -- Derek Jeter, Alfonso Soriano and even a few top guys who don't wear pinstripes. But when it comes to the National League, his picks are a little eccentric.</p>

Did anyone of you see Jesse Jackson on the Buchanan & Press show on MS-NBC a few minutes ago? He was promoting McBride's candidacy as Governor of Florida. But he went ahead and made a cheap shot, implying that Jeb Bush's daughter is getting special treatment over her drug problems, while youths from other (presumably poor & minority) families get sent to, in Jackson's words, "jail, jail, jail". Even by Jesse Jackson's standards, that is a new low. He is taking advantage of a family's personal pain, in order to derive political benefit for his favored candidate for office. McBride...

Black ministers, disturbed over what they see as an attempt to undermine Broward Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant, met privately Wednesday to strategize on her behalf. As the ministers met, another Oliphant supporter blasted county officials on radio. And Oliphant insisted she is still in charge of her office, even though she has ceded most of her authority to the county. Critics blame Oliphant for election mishaps in the Sept. 10 primary, including inadequately trained poll workers, no-show clerks and incorrect voter registration cards. In a closed-door meeting with County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, ministers Wednesday aired concerns about the county's...

<p>The mass e-mail sent out by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's re-election campaign is telling: Democratic challenger Bill McBride, already a proven giant-slayer, is 10 percentage points behind the Republican incumbent in a new Zogby poll.</p> <p>It is a slim lead against a political neophyte who overcame a 50-point deficit to defeat Janet Reno in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary.</p>

SUBJECT: The "F-Troop": Florida Gov. Candidate Bill McBride/Lt. Gov. Tom RossinTO: NRA & Unified Sportsmen of Florida Members & FriendsFROM: Marion P. Hammer, NRA Past President, Unified Sportsmen of Florida Executive DirectorDATE: September 20, 2002 Although Bill McBride is trying to hide his position on gun control, his pick for Lt. Governor, Tom Rossin, can't hide his strong anti-gun past. As a member of the Florida Senate he not only voted for gun control but he also sponsored gun control legislation. Rossin has a solid "F" rating. We now believe McBride is also an "F" and his attempt to...

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A week after Election Day, Miami-Dade County officials say they are confident every vote cast will be counted and reported by today's 5 p.m. deadline for state certification. Broward elections officials wrapped up their count Monday and plan to present final results today to Tallahassee. However, they refused to comment about any detail of their process to recover votes. Miami-Dade officials say their method of checking the count was almost foolproof. ''We have done everything within our power to make sure every vote has been counted in this election,'' assistant elections supervisor Gisela Salas said. Not everyone was so sure....

(AP) Florida gubernatorial candidate Janet Reno dodges questions from reporters as she leaves her... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - As it becomes more doubtful that Janet Reno will challenge Jeb Bush in Florida's gubernatorial race, the former U.S. attorney general is ready to fight Bush on another front: the courts. Reno campaign manager Mo Elleithee said Monday that his candidate plans on building a case saying Bush failed to reform the state's election system properly. The Bush campaign has insisted that the problems were caused by election officials in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The case would not be used to...

Elections board rejects Reno request for statewide recount MIAMI -- The Florida elections board rejected Janet Reno's request Friday for a statewide, manual recount in Florida's bungled gubernatorial primary, as South Florida officials continued finding uncounted votes, perhaps enough to erase Bill McBride's lead. Secretary of State Jim Smith said there would be no recounts, but any uncounted votes found could be submitted by counties with their updated totals next week.

Miami-Dade County says only one person voted at the Sans Souci Manor precinct in the northeast part of the county on Tuesday. Don't tell that to Jill Brothers, 63, and her neighbors. Brothers voted at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The place was packed. ''I can't believe it, why would they say that?'' Brothers said. ``It was almost full when I was there.'' Glum-faced county election workers admitted late Thursday that they had found vote-count anomalies in four polling places: Precinct 14 at North Shore Community Center, Precinct 105 at Highland Oaks Middle School, Precinct 148 at Sans Souci Manor Apartments and...

Some of Broward County's missing ballots spent election night at Bill McKamy's house in Tamarac. McKamy said he did the best he could as a Broward poll clerk, but his experience was emblematic of the problems that dogged Tuesday's primary election. Polls had been closed for nearly 16 hours by the time election workers picked up the equipment that 80-year-old McKamy had taken home. ''All I know is, I did a lousy job of clerking,'' McKamy said. McKamy was in charge of one precinct at a Tamarac assisted living facility. A second precinct shared the space. All Florida precincts had...

Broward County election workers shut down their tally of Tuesday's primary election at 4:30 a.m. today without a final count of 11 precincts -- including six precinct boxes that were never located at the voter equipment warehouse. Campaign workers observing the count -- including Bill McBride's campaign manager and two observers from the Jeb Bush campaign -- watched in horror as the clock crept past 4 a.m. with Broward's vote count incomplete. ''People like to go to bed knowing how their races turn out,'' said Robin Rorapaugh, McBride's campaign manager. ``It's very clear there were problems here.'' The nightmarish scramble...