Supervisor of elections
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The county supervisor of elections (SOE) is a Florida constitutional officer and countywide elected official.[1]
The county Supervisor of Elections Office, headed by the supervisor, oversees all public elections and political campaign regulations in the county on behalf of the secretary of state of Florida and the Florida Department of State.[2] The supervisor is elected every four years, coinciding with presidential elections, by the voters of the county in partisan elections.[3][4][5] In the event of the death, resignation, or removal from office of a supervisor of elections, the governor of Florida is empowered to fill the vacancy until the next regularly scheduled election.[6][7][8]
The role of SOE gained national attention during the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida and for the Volusia error incident.[9][10]
Duties and responsibilities
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The duties, as enumerated in the Florida Statutes, include:[11][12][13]
- Conduct all public elections in the county
- Register voters and issue voter information cards
- Remove voters from the registered voter rolls who no longer live in Florida, are deceased, or for any other reason are no longer eligible to vote in Florida
- Change information on registered voter rolls when a change request is received (e.g., name, address, party affiliation)
- Send advance notice of election to voters who are overseas, in the military, or who request notification
- Accept mail ballot requests and send, receive and verify mail ballots
- Qualify candidates for county offices
- Receive candidate campaign finance reports for county offices and make them available to the public
- Receive financial disclosure reports from elected county officials and make them available to the public
- Maintain election equipment
- Hire and train poll workers
- Acquire and equip polling places
- Maintain statistics on election results, voting history and voter registration
- Verify petition signatures for initiative petitions and candidate qualifying petitions
- Maintain precinct information, including a listing of streets and parts of streets that are in each precinct
List of Florida supervisors of elections
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The following is a partial list of incumbent (bolded) and former Florida supervisors of elections.[14]
See also
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