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2010-02-08
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Elections Office Welcomes New Voter Outreach Manager
2/4/2010
The Seminole County Elections office has named Helen Ehrgott as the new Voter Outreach Manager. In this role, Ehrgott is responsible for facilitating voter registration and community education events. She implements tactics which will increase the number of registered voters in Seminole County and is in charge of outreach and education programs to organizations throughout the community.Community Ideas from Crowdsourcing Appeal (thus far)
2/2/2010
Two weeks ago, the Seminole County Elections Office asked residents to provide us with ideas for voter registration and turnout. The attached list is their input.Seminole Elections Office to "Crowdsource" Voter Outreach
1/20/2010
The Seminole County Elections office is turning to a reliable source of ideas to help implement the 2010 Community Voter Outreach Plan: the residents. Spurred by the success of companies like Netflix and Pepsi, who have used crowdsourcing to implement either product or community improvement, the Elections Office is using the community of ideas from the residents to help discover and implement new voter outreach efforts for 2010.
In 2008, Seminole County was among the top counties in the state for voter turnout at 79.8% (vs. state average of 75.2%). Given that historically turnout for non-Presidential election years is significantly lower, the office is looking for ideas and avenues of implementation that will help to increase or maintain registration and turnout numbers to again top the state average for 2010.
Absentees could yield higher-than-normal turnout; Early voting starts Friday
10/27/2009
With just one week until Seminole County's municipal Election Day next Tuesday, an influx of absentee ballots could portend a higher-than-normal overall voter turnout for this off-year municipal election. So far 276 Longwood voters have returned absentee ballots and 645 of Oviedo's voters have returned theirs. This is a dramatic increase from the last similar municipal election year of 2005, where Longwood had a total of 54 absentees cast and Oviedo had a total of 100 absentee ballots cast.
Early Voting
--Early Voting for Longwood voters will take place October 30 from 10-6; Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 from noon-4. The only Early Voting site for the Longwood election is at the Supervisor of Elections Office at 1500 East Airport Blvd., Sanford, FL 32772.
--Early Voting for Oviedo voters will take place October 30 from 10-6; Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. The only Early Voting site for the Oviedo election is at the Oviedo City Hall at 400 Alexandria Blvd.
2009 city candidate bios and finance reports online
10/6/2009
--Direct link to candidate bio page: http://www.voteseminole.org/en-us/who_is_running_for_office/candidate_bios.php
--Direct link to candidate finance reports page: http://www.voteseminole.org/en-us/who_is_running_for_office/candidate_finance_reports.php
