- Poignant final words from Davis, and that’s a wrap
- Crist speech over, the real party begins
- Davis entourage takes the podium
- Crist goes on before Davis’ concession speech
- Davis concedes
- Maps are bleeding
- ‘Tude takes a downturn at Davis camp
- Crist about to give victory speech
- Waiting game at the Crist headquarters
- MSNBC barely makes a ripple
- Busanky concedes
- Fat lady HASN’T sung, Davis camp insists
- What, us worry?
- Crist Wins Says MSNBC, AP
- Keeping hope alive at the Davis camp
The Pinellas County election web site is back up and running. If you want to know where to vote in Pinellas, or have any other questions, send an email to election@votepinellas.com or go to http://www.votepinellas.com
The Pinellas County elections office web site appears to be down. So does the Pinellas County government home page. If you need information on voting in Pinellas, here’s the phone number (727)-464-6108
According to The Associated Press, Floridians are facing only minor delays at the polls.
However, there have been reports of some paper ballots being used.
Chief Financial Officer candidate Alex Sink sits in her white Lexus in the parking lot of the West Tampa Convention Center, giving – via cell phone – a live interview to WRUF-AM in Gainesville.
But she’s really here to wave. And why wouldn’t she be?
Three generations of Johnsons arrive at precincts 205 and 206, the West Tampa Convention Center. Only one generation will be voting, though.
Cynthia Hunter is trying to pump up the vote at Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church. It is, coincidentally, the South Seminole Heights’ woman’s home church.
But today, it’s her place of business. And she’s got her logistics down pat.
Victoria B. Moore, of 604 Forest Hills Drive, Brandon, is one flustered voter.
She says that she had some problems while pushing buttons at the Masconic Lodge in Brandon, Precinct 855.
At several points during the process, she says, the machine would not register her vote.
A survey released this week from the Marion Brechner Center Citizen Access Project at UF’s College of Journalism and Communications shows that Florida and Montana give the best access to election information.
Most candidates head to street corners on Election Day, vying for the attention of passers by. Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who started the final day close to his St. Petersburg home, doesn’t have the space or time to wave to drivers heading to work just before 8 a.m.
A man with only one leg works furiously to get his wheel chair through the grass and onto the sidewalk leading to the polling place at the Countryside Baptist Church in Sydney.
Despite sprinkles of rain on a gray morning, there are already nearly 35 voters lined up outside the Bethel Baptist Church in Valrico at 7:17 a.m.
Don’t be completely shocked to see Harry S. Truman get at least one write-in vote today.
...That’s the running joke in one Pinellas precinct.
Leading up to today, you’ve undoubtedly heard about poll after poll after poll that you had no part in.
Let’s change that right now.
Electioneering is balanced with work commitments for an educator with a personal connection to the voting. Laureen Allen, wife of a school board candidate, makes a quick stop before going to class.
One deputy election worker sees this exercise in democracy as an opportunity to make some extra folding green. Armando Valdes, 82, says he works the 14-hour gig every election for the money.
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