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Voters Reject Most Florida Amendments
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Much of the lengthy ballot in Florida was due to multiple state constitutional amendments that each required at least 60 percent support from voters to become law. The high threshold...
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Additional Planning May Have Eased Election Day Delays
MIAMI (CBS4) – Twelve years after Florida’s presidential election debacle which made the term “hanging chad” a common household term, some argue that we haven’t come very far. Near a day after most of...
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State Officials Meet To Discuss Miami-Dade Election Problems
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A special team formed by Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner to investigate the problems in last month’s election met Tuesday afternoon in Miami-Dade with Mayor Carlos Gimenez and...
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Election Supervisors Ask For Ballot Limits, More Early Voting
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) – Elections supervisors who testified before the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee on Monday said in the future less wordy constitutional amendment proposals and more...
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House Members Overwhelmingly Approve Elections Bill
TALLAHASSEE (CBS4/NSF) – In an attempt to remedy the voting problems that plagued the state in 2012, the Florida House passed an elections overhaul bill by an overwhelming margin Tuesday. Nearly all...
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Michelle Spence-Jones Denied Chance At Third Term In Office
MIAMI (CBS4) – A Miami judge has banned Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones from seeking a third term in office. The ruling came down from Circuit Court Judge Jorge E. Cueto Tuesday in favor of...
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Voters To Decide Fate Of Jackson Improvements
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A nearly unanimous Miami-Dade County Commission will send an initiative to Miami-Dade County voters in a special election to fund an $830 million overhaul of the Jackson Health...
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Sergio Robaina Changing Plea In Absentee Ballot Case
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Sergio Robaina, the uncle of former Mayor Julio Robaina, will accept probation and plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of illegally possessed absentee ballots, according to CBS4 news...
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Court Rules Out Miami Beach Convention Center Referendum
MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami/AP) — Incomplete details about a Miami Beach convention center plan led to a state appeals court ruling out a planned voter referendum for the $1 billion renovation. The 3rd...
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Key Player Votes Early For Jackson Health System Upgrade
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Early voting continues in Miami-Dade for a countywide special election in which voters are being asked to fund an overhaul of the Jackson Health System. Monday afternoon, the CEO of...
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Projected: Miami-Dade Voters To Raise Taxes For Jackson Health System
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Voters in Miami-Dade County were being asked to raise their taxes to fund a major overhaul of the Jackson Health System. Tuesday evening the bond to fund Jackson Health System was...
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Medical Marijuana Question Argued Before Fl. Supreme Court
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) – The Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office is arguing that a proposed constitutional amendment allowing marijuana for medical reasons would go beyond what voters would be led...
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Medical Marijuana Initiative Gets Needed Signatures
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Medical marijuana proponents cleared a major hurdle Friday by surpassing the number of signatures required to make it on the November ballot. But it’s still up in the air...
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Florida Supreme Court Clears Way For Medical Marijuana On Ballot
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Florida voters will get to decide whether medical marijuana should be legal in the state. The state Supreme Court cleared the way for a November ballot question proposing a...
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Rubio Declines To Answer Marijuana Question
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Sen. Marco Rubio is remaining quiet on whether he ever smoked marijuana and declining to answer the question. The Florida Republican and potential presidential candidate dodged a...
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Drive To Legalize Medical Marijuana Has Cost Millions
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – The legalization of medical marijuana will go before Florida voters this year, but for its backers, getting to this point has come with a heavy cost. People United for...
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Ruling May Chill School Districts Efforts To Challenge Charter School...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A ruling against the Miami-Dade County Public School District was the first-ever ruling under Florida statutes, written specifically to prevent school districts from taking “unlawful...
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Judge Rules Sheldon Meets Residency Requirements
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A legal move to disqualify one of two Democratic candidates for Florida attorney general failed Friday when a Tallahassee judge ruled that George Sheldon met the residency...
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Voters Urged To Get “Election Ready”
CBSMIAMI (CBSMiami) – With the November General Election less than a month away, elections supervisors are encouraging all voters to to become familiarized with their specific ballot content before...
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Wednesday Is Last Day To Request Absentee Ballot
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) — The Miami-Dade and Broward Elections Departments wants to remind all voters that Wednesday is the deadline to request an Absentee Ballot for...
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