On Tuesday, January 28th voters in Flagler, Putnam ,St. Johns and Volusia Counties went to the polls to pick winners in the Republican primary election for Senate District 6 and House Districts 17 and 24. The unofficial results have been posted and below are the results. District Candidate % of Vote Senate District 6 Travis Hutson 52.22 Read more about Special Primary Election Results[…]
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY In December, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced that since 2001, $900 million in unclaimed property has been returned to its rightful owner. The program currently holds unclaimed property accounts valued at more than $1 billion, which includes funds from dormant accounts in financial institutions, insurance and utility companies, securities and trust holdings. Unclaimed Read more about Issues of Interest[…]
HD 64 (Tampa) – The Florida House rejected the results of the general election in HD 64 because there were conflicting legal opinions as to whether or not a write-in candidate had been wrongly withdrawn from the race. Governor Scott called for a special primary election for February 10, 2015 and a special election to Read more about Special Elections[…]
Florida had three constitutional amendments on its ballot this year which we detailed in our last edition. In order to pass, the amendment needed 60% voter approval. This is how the voters cast their ballots on each of the initiatives. Amendment 1, Water & Land Conservation PASSED with 74.93% This citizens’ initiative was led Read more about Constitutional Amendments[…]
Here is a sampling of the results of many county referendums that appeared on the ballot. ALACHUA COUNTY A protest referendum against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision passed with 71.51% of the vote. The nonbinding proposal stipulated that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Also, voters defeated a proposed Read more about Local Referendums[…]