The Polk County School Board District 3 race already has three candidates. Incumbent Rick Nolte is on medical leave and has ...

Bell, who left the Florida Legislature to challenge Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards, captured Tuesday’s election with 54% of the vote, based on unofficial results.

Lori Edwards will depart on Jan. 6 after 24 years as Polk County Supervisor of Elections, having conducted more than 200 elections.

Edwards, first elected as Polk County’s Eeections supervisor in 2000, pointed to the county charter. In 2002, local voters approved a charter measure declaring elections for constitutional ...

Melony Bell waited a long time to achieve her goal of becoming Polk County’s Supervisor of Elections.. Bell recalled that when she was a Fort Meade city commissioner in 2000, her late mother ...

F or the first time in 24 years, Polk County will have a new supervisor of elections after state Rep. Melony Bell, R-Fort Meade, bested incumbent Lori Edwards, a non-party affiliate, in perhaps ...

Polk County’s supervisor of elections does not plan to change the method by which her office removes ineligible voters from rolls, despite a recent letter from a state official suggesting a ...

Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards said that the number of blank ballots was not as high as Polk County Republican Party Chair Jim Powers suggested and that it largely reflects ...

Polk County will see two new supervisors next year after Republican incumbent Steve Van Oort lost in the primary election on Tuesday. In an upset, Republican Mark Holm won his party's nomination ...

Three candidates seek retiring Polk County supervisor Robert Brownell's seat, while another two are challenging supervisor Steve Van Oort in the Polk County primary election on June 4.