TALLAHASSEE - While the issue lacks the excitement of hanging chads, the pieces of paper left when voters in 2000 punched holes in Florida's voting cards, an upcoming court battle between the state and a Chiefland voter may bring some clarification to residency requirements for voting in city elections.
Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning said Jan. 31 that he "looks forward to vigorously defending the state's election laws" when he was asked for a response to the lawsuit filed against him by Andy Andrews, according to Division of Elections spokesman Sterling Ivey.
Browning, Levy County Supervisor of Elections Connie Asbell and Chiefland City Manager Grady Hartzog Sr. recently were served with subpoenas related to this case, they all said.
Soon in Chiefland, Levy County, and by extension throughout Florida, a circuit court judge may declare the definition of "residence."
After State Attorney Bill Cervone on Jan. 7 chose against prosecuting Andrews and 10 other people who had been investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for voter fraud, Andrews sued Browning, Asbell and Hartzog Sr. on Jan. 10.
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