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's secretary of state says it doesn't make sense to continue taking up state archive space with ballots from the 2000 presidential election. ...more

June 2, 2008

Voting activists demanded Thursday that state officials stop one Florida county from experimenting with Internet voting this fall. ...more

May 30, 2008

Former Hillsborough County Commissioner Phyllis Busansky will challenge incumbent Buddy Johnson for the county supervisor of elections post in November. ...more

February 9, 2008

A citizen initiative to ban gay marriage will be on the November ballot, the only one of more than 50 active petition drives that qualified Friday at the deadline for signature verification. ...more

February 2, 2008

Say what we will about the crush of political advertisements on television and radio and the madcap statewide barnstorming by GOP frontrunners hoping Florida launches them insurmountably toward the nomination, this culminating day should prove fascinating. ...more

January 29, 2008

Six years ago, Hillsborough County spent $15 million on what were then considered the latest, state-of-the-art voting machines. ...more

January 27, 2008

The Florida Legislature has made a mess of the citizens' initiative process. The system is now more burdensome for citizens groups seeking to change the state constitution and more chaotic for local elections supervisors. ...more

January 18, 2008

With all due respect to Brian Corley, Pasco's young, enthusiastic and appointed elections chief, This Space disagrees. Courteously. ...more

January 17, 2008

Secretary of State Kurt Browning said Wednesday that he has ordered county election officials to submit signature validations for citizen initiatives on paper because of glitches in the state's electronic reporting system. ...more

January 10, 2008