Who Cast Ballots in the 2012 Election in Florida?

The interactive U.S. voting map shows who the Florida voters were in the 2012 presidential election. You may be surprised by the results.

There was a slightly greater percerntage of eligible Hispanic voters – 62.2 percent – turning out to cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election in Florida than white, non-Hispanic voters. And more eligible female voters went to the polls than men. These results are among several demographic mesaurements released by the U.S. Census showing the make-up of voters in Florida and across the United States. Just click on Florida on the map above to see the results. Darker green states had a higher percentage of turnout. If you click on an individual state, you will see percentages of eligible U.S. citizens who voted in that state broken down by gender, race and ethnic group. This information was released from from the US Census Bureau on …

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Recount Friday For Treasure Island Election

One of five referendum questions on Tuesday's ballot ended in a tie vote.

Election officials will be holding a recount Friday morning after Treasure Island voters were split on a referendum dealing with downtown redevelopment in Tuesday's municipal election. Referendum question No. 3, which would allow density of up to 60 hotel or motel rooms per acre in the city's new downtown redevelopment district, ended in a dead heat. There were 762 votes in favor and 762 opposed, according to unofficial results from the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections. The Pinellas County Canvassing Board will meet at 9 a.m. Friday to conduct a recount and to certify the results, elections spokesperson Nancy Whitlock said. Officials will canvass provisional ballots and conduct a manual recount if required, Whitlock said. Here's the text …

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Treasure Island Election Results Are In; Recount Needed

Voters went to the polls to decide five referendum questions in Tuesday's election, one of which ended in a tie.

Treasure Island voters weighed in Tuesday on five referendum questions, four of which deal with downtown redevelopment — and one still hasn't been decided. Referendum question No. 3, which would allow density of up to 60 hotel or motel rooms per acre in the city's new downtown redevelopment district, ended in a dead heat. There were 762 votes in favor and 762 opposed, according to unofficial results from the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections. The Pinellas County Canvassing Board will meet at 9 a.m. Friday to conduct a recount and to certify the results, elections spokesperson Nancy Whitlock said. Officials will canvass provisional ballots and conduct a manual recount if required, Whitlock said. Here are all of the unofficial results, with …

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Treasure Island's 5 Referendum Questions For March 12 Election

Here's what will appear on the ballot for Treasure Island voters March 12.

Here's a look at the five referendum questions Treasure Island voters will see when they go to the polls March 12, according to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections. Sign up for the Pinellas Beaches Patch email newsletter to get our top headlines delivered straight to your inbox so you won't miss a thing!

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Florida Petition To Secede Reaches 30,000 Signatures

In just three days since Patch reported about a Florida secession petition, the petition grew from 1,343 to 30,304 signatures, exceeding its goal.

The Florida secession movement through an online petition has exploded over the course of three days, now surpassing its goal, reaching 30,304 signatures as of Wednesday evening. Patch first reported the Florida secession movement Monday when the petition on the White House's petition website had only 1,343 signatures and the story went viral to the point where 30,304 people have signed supporting the idea of secession, though it's not legally possible. The petition was created Nov. 10. Overall, 20 petitions for similar secession requests were filed on the site, and Texas even reached 60,000 signatures for its petition, The Huffington Post reported. More than 178 comments were posted on Patch's initial story and another 124 comments were …

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Is Crist Rising on Wave of Rick Scott Criticism?

Former Gov. Charlie Crist increasingly is blasting Gov. Rick Scott over how he is running the state of Florida.

The 2012 election is barely in the books and already Florida politicos are turning their eyes to 2014, especially Democrats hungry to take back the Governor's mansion from the Republicans. Increasingly, Democrats appear ready to embrace former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist as their best chance at winning in 2014. At the same time, Crist is taking a more vocal role in criticizing Gov. Rick Scott, even taking to Twitter to blast Scott's controversial decision not to extend early voting during the presidential election.  Crist certainly is a topic of news and speculation across Florida. Here is a sampling: AS DEMOCRATS TURN TO 2014, CHARLIE CRIST EMERGES AS MOST VOCAL OPPONENT OF RICK SCOTT by Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald  The populist…

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All Your Election Results

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Obama Wins in Florida

The Tampa Bay Times reports that President Barack Obama won the electoral vote in Florida.

Florida finally has a winner in the race for president. The Tampa Bay Times is reporting that President Barack Obama won all 29 electoral votes in the state of Florida. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Obama had 50.01 percent of the vote in Florida to Gov. Mitt Romney's 49.13 percent. According to the Florida Department of Sttate, Obama collected 4,236,032 votes to Romney's 4,162,174.

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