Officials: Florida Has 6 Percent More Voters Than In 2008
State officials released new voter registration numbers early Saturday, with some surprising changes since 2008.
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State officials released new voter registration numbers early Saturday, with some surprising changes since 2008.
Whether you vote early, by absentee, or on Election Day we want to warn you again you will be facing what many say is the longest ballot in history. And filling it out isn't exactly a cake walk.
We are currently seeing two very different approaches to the post-debate push from the two Presidential campaigns – Obama has a much stronger opening to the two week push.
With just two weeks to go until Election Day, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department began testing its voting equipment Monday.
A month before Election Day, President Barack Obama's campaign and Democrats posted an impressive fundraising haul, easing the party's concerns that he would face a significant money disadvantage against his well-financed Republican rival in the crucial closing days.
The November general election is a little less than five weeks away, but thousands of voters can start voting in South Florida this weekend. Around 172,000 absentee ballots went out Friday morning and will arrive in mailboxes across the area over the next few days.
Republican Mitt Romney's path to victory is slowly narrowing. With only five weeks until Election Day, President Barack Obama is close to receiving the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term.
One look at Miami-Dade's ballot and everything seems normal. Look closer, though, and you will notice it is double-sided and goes on and on...and on.
Though the polls give political junkies a rush – and can put them on a natural high for a time or sink them into the bowels of depression – they mean absolutely nothing on Election Day. The poll taken on Election Day at the nation's polling booths is obviously the only one that counts.
As the dust settles on Miami-Dade County's primary, one thing became clear: all of Norman Braman's preferred candidates lost.
What was expected to be a competitive race for the Miami-Dade School Board District 5 turned into a rout.
In Broward, voters countywide voted for two, at-large School Board members, as well as for three district seats.
In Broward County, voters elected one new county commissioner and sent one incumbent likely back into office in the Democratic primary.
Miami-Dade property appraiser Pedro J. Garcia looks like he will looking for a new job Wednesday morning.
The polls are open across the state where a light voter turnout is expected in the state's primary election on Tuesday.
It's tough to unseat a political powerhouse like U.S Congresswoman Frederica Wilson but Dr. Rudolph Moise is not a man who is easily intimidated by a challenge.
Katherine Fernandez Rundle wants voters to re-elect her as Miami-Dade's State Attorney. After heading up the fourth largest State Attorney's Office in the nation, she's got a major challenger at the polls.
The Reverend Al Sharpton is in South Florida again Tuesday urging African American voters to get out and cast their ballots in the Primary Election. He says he's worried they won't turn out because of crackdowns implemented this year by the state.
In what could be their final television interviews before Election Day, Barbara Jordan and Shirley Gibson both spoke to CBS4'S Gio Benitez and had messages for voters who will go to the polls and pick one of them to represent Miami-Dade's District 1 for the next four years.
The voters have spoken in South Miami.
With voters headed to the polls in the Florida GOP Primary, apparent front runner Mitt Romney spoke with reporters Tuesday morning outside of his Tampa headquarter, after a brief visit with volunteers.
If you think Tuesday's is all about Republicans across the state heading to the polls to cast their votes in the Florida primary, think again. Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike will go to the polls in some cities to vote in municipal elections.
If you think politics is boring, you haven't seen what they are doing in Hialeah this week.
It was a great day for incumbents in 4 Miami cities as voters stuck with what they knew, and returned Mayors to office in Homestead and Miami Beach. In Hialeah, an incumbent mayor won the right to a runoff with a political icon, and in Miami, two commissioners facing a host of challengers managed to hold them off and return to city hall.
Despite a series of controversies which had threatened the re-election bid of Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, voters on the beach returned her comfortably to office Tuesday, as she beat three challengers while holding almost 60% of the vote.
A month-long search after a Colorado airman's vehicle and dog were stolen while he was on deployment came to a tragic end on Saturday.
Antonelli holds a 20-point lead over teammate George Russell in the championship standings.
New security camera footage shows the collision in front of a house, sending debris flying.
Before this map was created, there were 20 districts that favored Republicans and eight that favored Democrats.
The entire region is under a Level 1 Flash Flooding advisory. We can expect to see some minor street flooding in urban areas.
A month-long search after a Colorado airman's vehicle and dog were stolen while he was on deployment came to a tragic end on Saturday.
Antonelli holds a 20-point lead over teammate George Russell in the championship standings.
New security camera footage shows the collision in front of a house, sending debris flying.
Before this map was created, there were 20 districts that favored Republicans and eight that favored Democrats.
The entire region is under a Level 1 Flash Flooding advisory. We can expect to see some minor street flooding in urban areas.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
Before this map was created, there were 20 districts that favored Republicans and eight that favored Democrats.
State lawmakers approved the new map, which deeply affects both Wasserman Schultz and fellow Democratic congressman Jared Moskowitz.
The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.
The new measures increase pressure on foreign financial institutions by threatening their access to U.S. markets if they continue to work with Cuban government entities.
A federal judge scolded prosecutors for pushing to move forward with detention proceedings for accused correspondents' dinner gunman Cole Allen, even though Allen agreed to remain in custody.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
Luna said she expects Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to be the next member who either resigns or gets expelled.
Uthmeier was asked several times during a press conference in Miami this week if he had formally requested the judge overseeing the grand jury to keep the findings secret.
Seventy-three percent of Americans say delays and denials of medical treatment by healthcare insurers are a major problem. Now, a company called Sheer Health says they will fight insurance battles on behalf of their clients.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants the popular coffee chains to prove their surgery drinks are safe for teens and suggested the Trump administration could place limits on your cup of coffee.
Tests of dozens of baby formulas by Consumer Reports found that nearly half contained potentially dangerous chemicals.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the 12-time Grammy Award winning composer and famed conductor who led the San Francisco Symphony for a quarter century, has died.