So it would seem. However, Florida has a rule creating a special
designation for races. This designation is Universal Primary Contest. The
Universal Primary rule Florida came up with requires races that will be decided
in the primary race to appear on all
party’s ballots: example is a state senate race that has only democrat
candidates qualify. This race will be decided in the primary election, so
Florida requires this race to appear on the ballot of all parties and
nonpartisan voters. As such, the race is coded as NP, but the candidates will
have the endorsement of the DEM party so the voters will understand that the
candidates are democrats. THEN, for uniformity of ballots, all other candidates
must have a party endorsement so as not to confuse the voter. If there are no
universal primary races in the county, then there will not be any candidate
endorsements on the primary ballot.
Note, I am not debating the wisdom of this rule, just explaining how it
works.
Mark
Earley
850 422-2100 - office/fax
850 322-3226 - cell
-----Original
Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Don
Bizmaier
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 12:40
PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: Party Endorsements -
Univ Primary
Mark:
In most jurisdictions The candidate is only endorsed by party in the general as
you have stated. It seems it would not serve any purpose to endorse a candidate
when they are already on a party ballot in the primary.
Don
Donald W.
Biszmaier
Support Services Specialist
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
7717 Greenwood Rd.
Louisville, Ky. 40258
Office 502-244-8645
Cell 502-314-6936
Fax 502-254-7835
-----
Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 24,
2002 2:24 PM
Subject: RE:
Party Endorsements - Univ Primary
There is
nothing prohibiting putting the party endorsement on the ballot, and that has
been my advice to the counties, “Just use the endorsement for each candidate in
each race”. Several counties have asked if they could avoid this and I figured
I would check to see if I was missing something. Typically, the counties in
Florida omit the endorsement label in Primary elections, and put it in only in
General elections.
Thanks for
the clarification.
Mark
Earley
850
422-2100 - office/fax
850
322-3226 - cell
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken
Clark
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002
12:40 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: Party Endorsements -
Univ Primary
In a word, no, if I follow you correctly.
I think I am reading something between the lines here that I don’t
entirely follow though. Is it
undesirable to put the party affiliation beside the candidate on all ballots,
independent of the UPR, and if so why?
Lots of jurisdictions just put the party affiliation with the candidates
as a matter of course. Put the
affiliation on all ballots:
problem solved.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Earley
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002
8:18 AM
To: Support
Subject: Party Endorsements - Univ
Primary
Florida has a new rule/law
that states that a universal primary race (UPR) must have party endorsements
next to the candidates’ names. For uniformity of ballots, any other race
appearing on a ballot that has a UPR must also have party endorsements next to
the candidates’ names.
A UPR is a partisan race
with qualified candidates from only one party. Since the other party does not
have candidates the race will be decided in the primary election, not the
general election, so it must be placed on ballots as if it were a nonpartisan
race to allow all voters to vote on it.
Ballot styles without the
UPR do not require the party endorsements on the races. However, if a race
appears on a ballot style with a UPR, but also appears on styles without a UPR,
the endorsements carry over. This has the effect of forcing all races to have
the party endorsements next to the candidates’ names across all ballot styles.
Is there a way around this?
Mark
Earley
850
422-2100 - office/fax
850
322-3226 - cell
