Here are some services your Supervisor of Elections offers that you might not know about
Your local Supervisor of Elections is the constitutional officer — elected by you, the voters — who is designated by Florida law to administer elections and voter registration for their respective county.
The local Supervisors of Elections in Florida handle tasks we're mostly familiar with, including conducting all public elections, registering voters and issuing voter information cards, removing voters from the registered voter rolls, and many other tasks (see below for a more comprehensive list of what your local SOE does).
But, what about tasks that aren't commonly known? There are things some of the different SOEs throughout Florida offer that aren't within their regular "job description."
One offering from SOEs throughout the state is mobile voter registration drives.
The Duval County Supervisor of Elections recently posted on Facebook that they sent a representative to the Silver Creek Apartment Complex on Sept. 5 after complex managers asked the SOE for a voter registration booth.
The SOE's representative brought voter registration applications and helped residents get registered to vote.
The Lake County Supervisor of Elections offers a facility tour and the chance to book the Supervisor of Elections for speaking engagements at civic organizations, businesses and classrooms.
Brevard County Supervisor of Elections Tim Bobanic and his staff are also available to speak to schools and civic groups about elections, voter registration and voting, as well as to conduct voter registration drives throughout the community.
Here's a full list of what a Supervisor of Elections does in your community:
→ Conduct all public elections
→ 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 if they are no longer eligible to vote in Florida
→ Change information on registered voter rolls when a change request is received (name, address, party affiliation, signature)
→ Send advance notice of election to voters who are overseas, in the military, or who request information
→ Accept Vote-By-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 publicly available
→ Receive financial disclosure reports from elected county officials and make them publicly available
→ Maintain election equipment
→ Hire and train poll workers
→ Acquire and equip polling locations
→ Maintain statistics on elections 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
→ Reply in a timely manner to public records requests
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