No elections official wants to re-live the post-election tsunami of 2000 that drowned Florida in a tidal wave of recount challenges and hanging chad. But - with John McCain and Barack Obama possibly heading for a photo finish in Florida, recounts could decide this year's presidential race. ...more

October 25, 2008

If Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley and challenger Pat Carroll are actually friendly rivals for Corley's job, they disguised it well. A combustible pair, Corley and Carroll were two of more than a dozen local candidates who answered questions from a crowd of about 40 Thursday night at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church at Seventh Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The event was organized by the Pasco County NAACP. Corley, a New Port Richey Republican appointed to the post by Gov. Charlie Crist last year, and Democrat Carroll, a Wesley Chapel resident with a law practice in New Tampa, often wrinkled their brows and shook their heads while the other spoke. ...more

October 24, 2008

.Let us count the ways things could go wrong on Election Day in Florida. ...more

October 24, 2008

Other counties are joining Pinellas in letting voters who fail Florida's "no match, no vote" test to confirm their identities at the polls and cast regular ballots on Election Day. ...more

October 23, 2008

Sen. Bill Nelson is asking Gov. Charlie Crist to reconsider his administration's position against allowing federal poll watchers in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties and two other counties on Election Day. ...more

October 21, 2008

Convicted felons may get to vote in Florida next month because the state doesn't have time to investigate every possible felon on the rolls, election officials said Tuesday. ...more

October 15, 2008

For the first time in decades, Pasco County voters will elect someone other than Kurt Browning as their supervisor of elections. ...more

October 12, 2008

Pinellas County will allow some new voters to resolve problems with their registrations at the polls, despite the state's warnings that it could trigger legal challenges. ...more

October 11, 2008

Taxpayers have pumped more than $227,000 this year into Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson's controversial voter education campaign. ...more

October 8, 2008

Pasco County voters have the tough task of choosing an elections supervisor to succeed Kurt Browning, who left the post after 26 years to become Florida's secretary of state in early 2007. ...more

October 5, 2008