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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 sites set up after the hurricane. Andersen noted that voters on Tuesday will be funneled through jus...

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. If nothing is done it is estimated that damage over the next 100 years could cost £161 million. ...

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 restricting voters to designated precinct sites. Hurricane Michael wiped out most of the polling locations ...

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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, which would make super voting sites optional for counties across the Sunshine State. Rep. Thomas Man...