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Constitution review panel could tackle ‘write-in loophole’

Published on October 4, 2017 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

A Constitution Revision Commission committee on Wednesday began considering whether to change Florida’s primary election system, including buttoning up what’s known as the “write-in loophole.” That allows a write-in candidate to close a primary. The commission’s Ethics and Elections Committee heard from advocates and some of the state’s elections supervisors, but took no action.

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Martin Dyckman: Winner-take-all winner could be Donald Trump

Published on August 12, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Martin Dyckman

Our next president may well owe the office to arrogant billionaires or be one himself. Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that fewer than 400 families account for nearly half the $388 million already invested in that election still more than a year away. Did America shed blood to be rid of monarchy only to have it come to this? And yet the vast moral and political corruption unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s confusion of free spending with free…

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