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Old 08-10-2024, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Pballer View Post
Is it true that you cannot vote for county commissioners unless you are a registered Republican?
Yes, and it is too late to change your registration if you are not. Florida law says that each party selects its candidates to run in the general, November, election. That election then decides the winner.

However if only one party is running candidates for the November election, the time to do so is well past, then the primary becomes the general election and all voters may vote in the primary unless there are persons who file to run as write-ins. This happened the last time in the county race which resulted in several incumbents losing.

This time and in 2020 however, only Republicans were running until the very last moment when a couple Republican (Prince and Wahl in 2020, Francis and Burke this year) politicians did the paperwork to run as write-ins in the November election. This meant the primary was not the final vote and it is thus a closed primary.

Now you are free to change party registration as often as you like and anyone could have changed from NPA or Democrat to GOP to vote in this primary if they did so in a timely manner.

Lastly.. and perhaps karma... in a neighboring county a person had been running for a local office and winning without opposition as a write in for several elections and paid the small fee to do so again. At the last minute a person filed to run as a Republican against him, too late for him to change to file to run in the primary. So now the general election will only have that person on the ballot.
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