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fromFortune
6 days ago

'La Gringa' Eileen Higgins hopes to become the first Democrat ( and non-Hispanic) mayor for Miami in nearly 30 years | Fortune

Miami's special mayoral runoff is a partisan test as Democrats try to end nearly three decades of Republican control with national implications.
fromSun Sentinel
2 months ago

Florida's top election official rejects call to count all mail ballots by hand

Hand-counting millions of mail ballots would be unwieldy and create problems, Secretary of State Cord Byrd told state Rep. Meg Weinberger, a Palm Beach County Republican who raised the issue. Byrd said hand-counting would be less accurate than the electronic equipment Florida election supervisors use for tabulation. And, he said it would delay election results. At the same legislative hearing at which Byrd knocked down the notion of hand-counting ballots, he suggested he was readying a proposal that would provide something the MAGA movement wants.
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