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Alachua County commissioners are looking to eliminate single-member districts by creating a ballot measure for 2024 that would ask voters to decide whether they want to keep the single-member ...
“Dirty politics” of 2022’s election cycle Given the small margin by which single-member districts passed, many critics of the change have pointed to a series of questionable tactics by ...
State, state-level GOP wants a referendum on how Lee County commissioners are elected. Local GOP groups oppose, but Governor signs the bill into law ...
Single-member districts must be adopted no later than the 120th day before the next election, or by July 7 this year, district staff said. If a petition asking for the adoption of single-member ...
Those in favor of single-member districts spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising, while county officials were restricted by law from producing any content that discussed the referendum.
Single-member districts were discussed as recently as 2020, but the issue has never gone to a vote. Now it will. This November will be the first time Alachua County voters can weigh in.
Supporters of single-member districts say it provides for more moderate and conservative voices to be elected to the County Commission., which has historically been dominated by Democratic leaders.
For the first time in the 55-year history of the Charleston County School District, the community will vote in single-member districts to elect nine school board members.
Single-member districts have been used successfully to provide access to political power for people of color, who had, under at-large voting, been unable to elect candidates of their choice.
SUMMERVILLE — A bipartisan coalition of elected officials, community members and parents is pushing for single-member districts for Dorchester School District Two. Currently, the entire DD2 ...
Single-member districts a '20-year-fight' County Property Appraiser Matt Caldwell has fought for the change for literally decades. "It's been a 20-year fight," he told the committee.
Single-member districts a 20-year endeavor. Matt Caldwell, currently the county Property Appraiser, has argued for the change for 20 years, ...