Election Day is Tuesday in the run-off elections for Tampa Mayor and three city council seats. Five of the six city council candidates answered questions Friday at the Tampa Tiger Bay Club. Listen to the forum here. Candidates talked about what they would do to improve schools, justice reform, enhance the arts, add affordable housing… Read more »
Trump & Barr distort facts and the Mueller Report
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League of Women Voters pushing for national popular vote compact for president
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Young Floridians turned out to vote in the 2018 midterm election
Florida’s 2018 youth vote swells over previous midterm By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — They rallied hundreds of thousands to march for gun reform, landed on the cover of Time magazine and raised millions of dollars from celebrities like Oprah and George Clooney. But could the teenage survivors of the Parkland school… Read more »
Video: Tampa City Council candidates debate at Tiger Bay
In March, Tampa voters will not only vote for a new mayor, but all seven city council seats are in play as well. On Friday at the Tampa Tiger Bay Club, candidates from three of the city council races answered questions from club members. Two people are challenging Council member Charlie Miranda for the District… Read more »
Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections: most Florida ex-felons can register to vote beginning Tuesday
Hillsborough County’s Supervisor of Elections says that he’ll let many ex-felons register to vote beginning Tuesday, even though Florida’s governor-elect has a different opinion. Tuesday is when the recent voter-approved amendment on voting rights restoration becomes effective in the Florida Constitution. Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer tells WMNF News that rights restoration goes into… Read more »
Florida’s 2018: Stoneman Douglas, Red Tide, Hurricane Michael, Election drama and more
2018 in Florida: mass shootings, hurricanes, election sagas By TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida in 2018 saw a horrific school shooting, a devastating hurricane that ravaged parts of the state’s Panhandle region, and a contentious election that dragged on for weeks. A school shooting sent reverberations through the nation, in schools… Read more »
How much legal trouble is President Trump in? We ask a law professor
President Donald Trump may be in legal trouble; last week his long-time attorney was sentenced to three years in prison, in part for campaign finance violations. They include coordinating with Trump to pay two women for their silence over alleged affairs with Trump. Cohen allegedly paid $130,000 to porn actor and director Stormy Daniels; $150,000 was… Read more »
How can Florida get better at counting votes in elections?
How can Florida get better at counting votes in elections? The outgoing ACLU of Florida executive director suggests uniformity This month’s election in Florida saw machine breakdowns, hundreds of votes lost during recounts, confusing ballot design – so how can the state improve its track record of counting votes in elections? WMNF News put that… Read more »
Facts vs POTUS: Climate change, Saudi Arabia, elections, courts, and more
AP FACT CHECK: Trump myths on dipping oil prices, cold snaps By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is wrong when he suggests global warming can’t be happening if it’s really cold outside. He points to a “brutal and extended cold blast” in the Eastern U.S. during Thanksgiving week… Read more »
Florida’s hand recount begins for the Senate race
Florida starts painstaking hand recount in US Senate race By KELLI KENNEDY and CHRIS O’MEARA, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Volunteers gathered around folding tables Friday to begin a painstaking hand recount in Florida’s acrimonious U.S. Senate contest, with a goal of determining the intent of about 93,000 voters whose ballots for Republican Gov…. Read more »
Florida ballot not counted due to signature mismatch? Here’s how to “cure” it
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker gave thousands of Florida voters until this weekend to fix their ballots if they haven’t been counted because of mismatched signatures; to find out how that works, WMNF News interviewed Brian Corley, the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections about what you should do if you think your ballot was… Read more »
Fair elections lawyer questions Florida recount on signature matches and late mail ballots
Last week Bill Nelson sued the Florida Secretary of State to demand that the Florida recount tally all ballots that were disqualified because it was determined that they had a signature mismatch; and this week, Nelson sued the state to count vote-by-mail ballots that were postmarked before but not delivered before polls closed on Election Day. To… Read more »
Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections: We’ll finish machine recount by deadline
All 67 counties in Florida are in the midst of mandatory machine recounts of all ballots in order to get more accurate counts of three very close statewide races; in the race for U.S. Senate, Rick Scott leads Bill Nelson by 0.15%, in the race for governor, Ron DeSantis leads Andrew Gillum by 0.41% and… Read more »
Speaking to Election Day voters in Florida
Florida should know the results of highly anticipated races for Governor and U.S. Senator by the evening of Election Day; Republican Gubernatorial candidate, former Congress member Ron DeSantis, and his wife voted early Tuesday morning in North Florida. A small crowd of supporters chanted, “We want Ron!” Meanwhile, in Tallahassee, his Democratic opponent, Mayor Andrew… Read more »
Kristen Carlson faces Ross Spano in Florida Congressional District 15
There’s a surprisingly tight race in Florida’s 15th Congressional District between Republican Ross Spano and Democrat Kristen Carlson; we interviewed Carlson on WMNF’s MidPoint — The p.r. firm handling media requests for the campaign of Ross Spano wrote, “Unfortunately, Ross is booked during those times on Monday and we won’t be able to accommodate your request.” The… Read more »
