Why will half of Duval County's state House races be decided voters in one political party?
has three Republicans — Kiyan Michael, Lake Ray and Chet Stokes — on the ballot in one of the most closely fought battles for a House seat in the state.
In House District 16, write-in candidates Richard E. Hartley and Harley Wayne Moore, who both live outside that district, triggered a closed primary with solely Republican voters for that contest.and Moore also is a registered Republican. But their party registration doesn't matter in terms of closing the Aug. 23 primary because they qualified as write-ins for the November general election where the only reference to write-ins will be a blank line on the ballot.
Patrice Wynette Jones, a Democrat who does not live in District 14, qualified to be a write-in candidate in the November general election, so only Democrats can vote in the primary that will fill an open seat in the Legislature. Even though the candidates live outside the districts, that doesn't prevent them from entering the race as write-ins for the state House seats.that had required write-in candidates to live in the district where they filed to run. The court found that law was unconstitutional because it put more stringent residency requirements on write-ins than on other candidates when it came to qualifying for the ballot.
Gruber said that even though the measure fell short, it showed voters are tired of being left out when a single political party determines who will fill a seat.
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