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PALM COAST, Fla. – The 2024 Palm Coast mayoral election now features five candidates who’ve ever either filed or stated they intend to. Incumbent Mayor David Alfin will face first-time challengers Mike Norris, Scott McDonald, and Peter John...
PALM COAST, Fla. – The 2024 Palm Coast mayoral election now features five candidates who’ve ever either filed or stated they intend to. Incumbent Mayor David Alfin will face first-time challengers Mike Norris, Scott McDonald, and Peter John...
The Palm Coast Canvasing Board met this morning for the last time to conduct a legally-required manual count of one precinct’s total votes in the July 27 special election for mayor. As expected, the audit produced no discrepancies. “The difference across is zero,” Palm Coast City Clerk Virginia Smith said at the end of the audit, meaning that the machine-count result and the hand-count matched, 100 percent. The count had taken less than an hour. The board consists of Smith and David Valinski, with alternate member Michael Martin. Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart is not a member o...
With less than 2,000 votes left to be counted on Election Night, David Alfin held an insurmountable lead in the the six-way city of Palm Cost mayoral race. Alfin, a a real estate agent who has lived in Palm Coast for a decade, held 35.92% of the vote (6,173) and was trailed distantly by Alan Lowe, who had 26.26% (4,513 votes) and Cornelia Downing Manfre, who received 24.67% (4,240 votes). Of the remaining three candidates, Doug Courtney got 9.23 of the vote so far, Kathy Austrino received 2.82% and Carol Bacha received 0.98%. Alfin has presented himself as a champion of collaboration a...
The candidates in a screen capture from the News-Journal’s social media video of the forum at Buddy Taylor Middle School. From left, Carol Bacha, David Alfin, Kathy Austrino, Doug Courtney, Alan Lowe and Cornelia Manfre. A FlaglerLive Analysis Palm Coast’s six candidates for mayor gathered Monday evening for the last and most-attended forum ahead of the July 27 special election. The election has been well under way, with voting by mail started weeks ago and early voting starting last Saturday. As of today, 10,000 ballots had already been cast, most by mail, representing 14 percent of the ...