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PANAMA CITY — For the first time since Hurricane Michael, Bay County voters will be required to cast their ballots at assigned polling locations on Election Day, Tuesday. Supervisor of Elections Mark Andersen said for that reason, voters need to take advantage of early voting, or take the time now to find out at what sites they have been assigned. Early voting ends on Friday. Unlike traditional voting sites, any registered voter in Bay County was allowed to use any of the super voting si...

An aerial view of Poole on May 20, 2020. Picture by Stephen Bath. Pilot Jeremy Carpenter A GRANT of £12.4 million has been awarded to BCP Council to protect huge areas of Poole from flooding. The Environment Agency has handed over the Flood Defence Grant for tidal flood defences along roughly 1.5km of waterfront at Back Water Channel. It will protect parts of Poole town centre, the Old Town and new developments in the Twin Sails regeneration area from flood risk for the next 100 years. ...

WFSU News The Glenwood Community Center in Panama City, FL served as an early voting site and then a super voting site on Election Day in November 2020. For the last four election cycles, voters in two counties recovering from Hurricane Michael could cast a ballot at any local polling site. Two bills recently filed in the state legislature — SB 774 and SB 635 — seek to give every local elections supervisor the option to operate countywide polling sites on Election Day, instead of restricti...

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Florida lawmakers and election officials are proposing to allow “super” voting sites intended to make casting in-person ballots more convenient for voters and less costly for counties in the days leading up to future elections. Super voting sites, or “early voting on steroids” as Bay County Supervisor of Elections Mark Andersen calls them, allows county elections offices to continue early voting procedures through Election Day. Republican Sen. George Gainer of Panama City filed SB774, ...

“Super” voting sites would be intended to make casting in-person ballots more convenient for voters and less costly for counties by allowing county elections offices in Florida to continue using early-voting procedures through Election Day.

Punks at the Georgetown Roy Rogers fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C., 1985. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty Images) There are some people—those of a certain age and a certain disposition, mostly middle class and white, often male—who will always remember just where they were when they heard the news. I was working as a bike messenger in San Francisco that spring day in 1994, and I can still recall locking up outside City Hall, getting ready to make a court filing, when the boss came on ...