Legal filings show Florida elections officials have taken early steps under pressure from activists to advance a proposed initiative to legalize recreational marijuana to next year’s ballot.
The polls are set to close in Florida at 7 p.m. local time. Shortly after, election results should begin to populate via the county Supervisor of Elections website.
State elections officials on Monday sent a proposed recreational marijuana constitutional amendment to Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office, effectively putting an end to a lawsuit that backers of the measure filed to try to trigger a Florida Supreme Court review of the proposal.
Weeks after a pro-marijuana group sued the DeSantis administration in the Florida Supreme Court for allegedly slow-walking the process to put an amendment on the ballot, Florida election officials ann
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, is comfortably ahead in polls but there are signs the so-far sleepy race is sparking to life.
In a close vote Tuesday, Miami-Dade County commissioners appointed a Republican state lawmaker to an empty board seat instead of calling a special election to fill the vacancy.
All eyes are on South Florida from New York City residents wanting to move from the Big Apple now that Zohran Mamdani is officially the city's Mayor-elect.