Detzner fiddles as state election system burns Florida, the state that’s way too familiar with election catastrophe, has new reason to worry about its elections system. With the 2016 presidential election cycle just starting to heat up, a new audit raises troubling questions about Florida’s ability to conduct elections without a major screwup. The state’s […]
Audit shows flaws haunt Florida election system – Orlando Sentinel
While political scientists correctly point out that democracy frequently is a messy endeavor, modern democracy’s support structures — such as voter registration databases — should be scrupulously secure and precise. Instead of that ideal, an audit of the Florida Voter Registration System found that the Division of Elections, under Secretary of State Ken Detzner, had […]
The slow fading light of a Scott initiative – Blog-The Fine Print
Sorry for the delay – time for another installment of Inside the Tallahassee bubble news Three years ago this May Gov. Rick Scott unveiled an initiative that he said would help citizens hold their government accountable. Project Sunburst as it was called was described as a way to increase access to public records held by […]
