Florida Statute 102.131 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 102
CONDUCTING ELECTIONS AND ASCERTAINING THE RESULTS

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102.131 Returns before canvassing commission.—If any returns shall appear to be irregular or false so that the Elections Canvassing Commission is unable to determine the true vote for any office, nomination, constitutional amendment, or other measure presented to the electors, the commission shall so certify and shall not include the returns in its determination, canvass, and declaration. The Elections Canvassing Commission in determining the true vote shall not have authority to look beyond the county returns. The Department of State shall file in its office all the returns, together with other documents and papers received by it or the commission. The commission shall canvass the returns for presidential electors and representatives to Congress separately from their canvass of returns for state officers.

History.—s. 35, ch. 3879, 1889; RS 189; s. 66, ch. 4328, 1895; GS 249; RGS 293; CGL 349; s. 6, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 5, ch. 65-129; ss. 10, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 25, ch. 77-175; s. 46, ch. 79-400.

Note.—Former s. 99.50.

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Palm Beach Cnty. Canvassing Bd. v. Harris, 772 So. 2d 1220 (Fla. 2000).

Cited 11 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2000 WL 1725434

...(2000). [25] § 102.141(3), Fla. Stat. (2000). [26] § 102.141(1), Fla. Stat. (2000). [27] § 102.141(2), Fla. Stat. (2000). [28] § 102.141(3), Fla. Stat. (2000). [29] §§ 102.111-.112, Fla.Stat. (2000). [30] §§ 102.111, .121, Fla. Stat. (2000). [31] § 102.131, Fla....

...(2000) ("If any returns shall appear to be irregular or false so that the Elections Canvassing Commission is unable to determine the true vote for any office ... the commission shall so certify and shall not include the returns in its determination, canvass, and declaration."). [32] § 102.131, Fla....

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Siegel v. LePore, 120 F. Supp. 2d 1041 (S.D. Fla. 2000).

Cited 7 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 29 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1190, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16333, 2000 WL 1687185

...Stat. § 98.015(8). The county canvassing board is an essential part of Florida's election scheme. Ordinarily, the board is made up of the supervisor of elections, a county court Judge, and the chair of the board of county commissioners. See Fla. Stat. § 102.131(1)....

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Gore v. Harris, 773 So. 2d 524 (Fla. 2000).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2000 WL 1867628

...Although the Secretary of State is the chief election officer of the state, see section 97.102(1), Florida Statutes (2000), the actual conduct of elections occurs in Florida counties with the county canvassing boards in each county responsible for counting the votes given each county. See § 102.131(1), § 102.141(2), Fla.Stat....

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