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Pinellas election supervisor says, ā€˜Eat more chicken and register to voteā€™

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Tomorrow is the fourth Tuesday in September. More importantly, itā€™s National Voter Registration Day and local, national and state organizations are finding unusual ways to encourage people to register. Pinellas Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark has one idea ā€“ combine voter registration with food. Chicken, that is. Clark will have will have election ambassadors available at Pinellas County Chick-fil-AĀ® restaurants from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday to help citizens with voter registration. Anyone needing to register to vote, update their voter…

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Senate candidate Nina Hayden DID NOT qualify for the ballot via petition

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With not enough money in her campaign account to cover the check she will have to write to the state in order to run for the state Senate, long-shot Democratic candidate Nina Hayden once told me via Twitter that she wasn’t spending a lot of time fundraising because she was focused on gathering the requisite number of signatures to qualify for the ballot via petition. Looks like Hayden wasn’t focused enough. According to the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections, Hayden came…

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Charlie Crist: Still a Republican?

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Just stopped by the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections’ office to check on Charlie Crist’s voter registration. Apparently, the Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, is still registered as a Republican, despite numerous public statements to the contrary. Ā What gives, Charlie?

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Election Day

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The County Election pictures the American democratic system in progress. The story takes place in a small Midwestern town in the mid-nineteenth century, when the rituals of voting were still taking shape, particularly on the frontier. George Caleb Bingham, known as ā€œthe Missouri artistā€ for the state where he lived and worked, recognized the responsibilities as well as the rights of citizenship; and because he played an active part in Missouri politics, he gained a personal perspective on the contemporary…

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Bill Foster says he’s a ‘progressive’ leader as ballots for early voters arrive in mailboxes

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The Pinellas Supervisor of Elections got its act together — what would Deborah Clark do without John Buckmaster? — and mailed out the ballots to so-called early voters for the St. Petersburg Municipal Elections. The ballots are usually followed by the direct mail of candidates smart enough to track these early voters. But in a race in which 55,000 ballots were mailed to early voters, I cannot see the value in spending almost $30K to sending each prospective voter a…

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