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The exclusion of eligible voters from the file was a central part of the controversy surrounding the US presidential elections in 2000, which hinged on results in Florida. The 'Florida Central Voter File' was replaced by the Florida Voter Registration System on January 1, 2006, when a new federal law, the Help America Vote Act, came into effect.
In 1986, Collins, who was a former Bay County, Florida school board official, challenged the use of I Am the Cheese and other books at the Mowat Junior High School his granddaughter attended. He wrote letters to the parents of all the students, and placed an advertisement in the Panama City News-Herald .
A study by The Palm Beach Post speculated that voters confused by Palm Beach County's butterfly ballot cost Al Gore the presidency. [11] A 2024 study by The New York Times described it as "a slam dunk" that, all else being equal, the ballot design swung the election to George W. Bush .
Florida wants elections officials to use EagleAI data collected by far-right activists to potentially remove people from the state’s voter rolls, according to emails obtained by NBC News.
The availability of voter files sometimes creates a need for voter list management software as opposed to, for example, using Excel spreadsheets. Political campaigns generally have three options: Write-their-own software: A political campaign may choose to build their own database management system to handle their voter registration files.
By the end of 2023, over a million people were declared inactive in Florida's voter rolls. The voters so marked were overwhelmingly Democrat and independent voters , according to state records.
Those marked "inactive" in voter file still maintain their registration and right to vote. Those who are eligible to vote but have had their registrations canceled can re-register before or up to ...
Most major television news networks had originally called Florida for Gore (before the polls closed in Florida), but retracted the call around 10 p.m. EST. Fox News was the first to lead the charge the other way, acting on data that included this impossible Volusia County 216th precinct data, completely altering the close race with a sudden ...