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• Seminole election chief Mike Ertel vs. the 'partisan' conventional wisdom

  Mike Ertel, the elections supervisor of Seminole County,** is one of the few in the state who daily emails out data about early and absentee voting (AKA "EV/AB").

  The emails also have an elections musing/lesson for the day that address some of conventional wisdom about elections that concern, for example, early [...]

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• Michelle Obama is Miami-Daytona-Jacksonville- bound Thursday

  From a press release:

  TAMPA – On Thursday, November 1, First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Florida, where she will speak to grassroots supporters in Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, and Miami. With early voting underway in Florida, the First Lady will speak about what’s at stake in this election for Floridians [...]

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• Member of pioneering Miami family opposes park expansion pushed by tennis tournament

  A ballot on the Nov. 6 Miami-Dade ballot asking voters whether the county should move forward with a Sony Open proposal to expand the Crandon Park Tennis Center and extend the tournament organizers' lease drew its first public opposition Sunday -- in a full-page color ad in The Miami [...]

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• Miami-Dade judge rules new Florida law governing death-penalty legal fees unconstitutional

  A Miami-Dade judge says a law tying legal bills for defending death penalty defendants to annual budgets of state judges is unconstitutional.

  Circuit Judge Victoria Sigler said the law violates Florida’s constitution, which guarantees a separation of power between the judiciary and lawmakers — who are supposed to be the ones [...]

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• Miami songstress croons in Spanish for county Pets' Trust ballot measure

  Miami singer Lissette, a well-known songstress in her own right and the wife of salsa star Willy Chirino, has recorded a song in support of a Miami-Dade County measure on the Nov. 6 ballot.

  The non-binding measure, a straw ballot known as the Pets' Trust, asks voters if they would [...]

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• Barred from political advertising, cities, counties warn of Amendment 4's 'consequences'

  City and county governments warn that if Amendment 4 passes next week, shuttered libraries, fired police officers and gutted social services will litter the public landscape.

  It’s a grim scenario local officials say will result from the $1.7 billion in tax relief the amendment offers primarily to businesses, first-time homebuyers and [...]

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• Pamphlet problems and palm-card controversies: The shadow war between Rep. Artiles and former Rep. Zapata

  With Hurricane Sandy sucking the air out of the presidential race, we now take you back to Miami-Dade County where the hot air is always blowing during election season.

  Consider the county commission race between former state Rep. Juan Zapata and Manny Machado. He's backed by longtime Zapata opponent, Frank [...]

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• Under FBI scrutiny, suspected David Rivera ringer pleads the 5th in federal campaign letter

  A former Congressional candidate at the center of an FBI probe tied to Rep. David Rivera has filed blank federal campaign-finance reports and a letter saying he would remain silent to avoid incriminating himself.

  "On counsel's advice, I invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the [...]
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• Alex DLP robocall attacks 'crazy' Miami-Dade commissioner who backed DLP opponent

  Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez is not on the Nov. 6 ballot. But he's getting attacked in a robocall just the same -- by former state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla.

  Diaz de la Portilla, a Republican, is running in Florida House District 112, which overlaps with portions of Suarez's commission [...]

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• FEMA's Fugate: Fixing post-Sandy election problems to be "led by the states"

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency is considering what might happen if widespread power outages and damage to polling places from Hurricane Sandy can't be addressed in time for the election.

  It's something FEMA administrator Craig Fugate, the former top emergency management official in Florida, had to deal with in 2004 after [...]

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