The Primary Election is on Tuesday, Aug. 20 and will involve statewide candidates, the supervisor of elections, state committee members, circuit and county judges, and school board candidates. Find the guides for these individual races linked below.
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How OCN’s Voter Guide works
Our community is experiencing a time of great growth and change, making it more important than ever to create a line of communication between voters and the representatives they entrust to make important, local decisions on their behalf.
Traditional voter guides have newsroom staff creating the questions for the candidates. At OCN, we believe that when it comes to local elections, the power should be with the people. The OCN team collects voters’ questions for the candidates and voters’ priorities when it comes to local issues to develop the questions in the guide.
Here is our recipe for creating an extremely fair and balanced guide:
- Each candidate within a specific race had the same, exact list of questions
- The questions were sent out to each candidate within a race at the same time
- Each candidate had the same amount of time to answer the questions
- Each candidate had a 50-word, or 325-character, allotment for each question
- The answers provided were only edited for word count, grammar and clarity, not content
- Candidate answers have been published in the guide with profile information, including occupation, platform and campaign financial reports
OCN is still collecting questions and priorities for the General Election candidates. Submit those here. Find the general election candidate information below.
This guide would not be possible without the vital work of reporters Aanya Shah, Makayla Gray, Managing Editor Isaac Babcock, Editor-in-chief Megan Stokes, reporter Eric Orvieto and Senior Editor Alex Babcock. Countless hours were spent reporting, fact checking, reaching out to candidates, laying out the guide and deliberating on how to produce the most useful, fair and equitable resource possible.
This guide would also not be possible without contributions from OCN’s 211 individual donors. Thank you for helping us to provide this critical community service.
The deadline to register to vote before the primaries is Monday, July 22. Find everything else you need to know about voting in Seminole County here.
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