After Bob Germaine was elected Highlands County Clerk of Courts, he retired in December from his old job, senior director of court services. For the rest of his life, he'll get a check from the Florida Retirement System. ...more

April 2, 2009

State Sen. Charlie Justice, D-St. Petersburg, is sponsoring smart legislation that would make county election supervisors nonpartisan jobs and, as in the case of trial judges, prohibit political parties or groups from endorsing or supporting candidates in their campaigns. ...more

February 25, 2009

Election chiefs in Florida walk a fine line between politics and the oath of office. ...more

February 21, 2009

7:30 a.m.: The doors at Precinct 701 in FishHawk Ranch opened on time at 7 a.m., and there has been a steady flow of voters heading in to cast their votes. The line has not gotten any shorter, though. It still stretches all the way down Palmettoside Drive to Dorman Road. ...more

November 4, 2008

This year's presidential election has fired up so many people that the Florida Division of Elections can't handle the volume of voter registration applications it is receiving, the Secretary of State's office said Wednesday. ...more

September 25, 2008

Supporters of a proposed Florida constitutional amendment requiring voters to approve changes in local growth management plans told a federal judge Wednesday that a host of discrepancies and problems improperly blocked the measure from the November ballot. ...more

August 7, 2008

What's the use of paper ballots if no one looks at them? That's the question that election watchdogs continue to press, even as the state's election supervisors race to implement the 2007 election law requiring every Florida county to vote on paper ballots. ...more

June 15, 2008

Florida voters got so caught up in the excitement of Super Tuesday that many tried to cast ballots for the presidential primaries - again. ...more

February 6, 2008

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida voters got so caught up in the excitement of Super Tuesday many tried to cast ballots for the presidential primaries — again. ...more

February 5, 2008

Florida Hometown Democracy, the amendment that promised to let residents control growth in their communities, is in trouble because of a business-backed group's last-minute petition drive. ...more

January 26, 2008