Leon County: who represents you
Two governments, one city, and a nonbinding consolidation question on the November 3 ballot. Plus every office you vote for, who holds it now, and when it is next up.
On the November 3 ballotNovember 5, 2024, certified statewide result
55.9%
of Florida voters said yes to legalizing marijuana for adults.
Not Law
It needed 60. A majority was not enough, and that is not an accident. The threshold has a history, the campaign against the amendment had funders, and both are documented. Start there.
Florida keeps voting for things its government refuses to deliver. This site documents the gap, names the machinery that maintains it, and shows what closing it would take. We keep the receipts.
The signature exhibit
The Ledger: what you voted for, what you got
Certified ballot results on the left. What the people you elected did about them on the right.
MeasureThe voteWhat happenedStatus
Amendment 1 (2024)
Partisan election of district school board members
54.9%voted yes
BLOCKED
Verified
A majority said yes to partisan school board elections. The 60% rule said no.
Amendment 3 (2024)
Adult personal use of marijuana
55.9%voted yes
BLOCKED
Verified
A majority said yes. Florida's 60% supermajority rule said no. The rule itself was added to the constitution in 2006.
Amendment 4 (2024)
Limiting government interference with abortion
57.17%voted yes
BLOCKED
Verified
A majority said yes. The 60% rule said no.
Every row links to certified results and primary documents. Status chips show where each claim sits in our verification pipeline. Nothing on this site is presented as fact until it clears independent review, and rows marked pending are exactly what they say.
Long form, primary sourced
Open files
Investigations built from court records, state documents, and archived sources. Updated as the record changes, with every correction logged.
The 60% rule
In 2006 Florida voters raised the bar for amending their constitution to 60 percent, approving that change with 57.78 percent of the vote. Since then thirteen measures have drawn a majority of Floridians and failed anyway.
Certified results verifiedTwo tiers: voting rights restoration in Florida
In 2018 Florida voters restored the vote to as many as 1.4 million people by citizen initiative, and the Legislature then attached a price to it. Today an out-of-state felony conviction can leave a Floridian eligible to vote while an in-state one does not.
Two-tier system in effectThe Hope Florida money trail
A $67 million Medicaid settlement signed on September 27, 2024 directed $10 million to a foundation tied to the governor's Hope Florida initiative. Within weeks, $8.5 million reached a political committee chaired by the governor's chief of staff and campaigning against Amendment 3 (2024).
Grand jury presentment sealedThe long project
All 67, eventually
Counties with published research: 1 of 67
The goal is ten years of documented leadership for every county in Florida: who held office, what they did, what they promised, and what the record shows, including after they left. That is a years-long archive, so we are building it one county at a time, starting at home.
Precision is the fix
Words worth getting right
American political vocabulary has been flattened to about six words, all of them insults. These pages give you sharper tools.
symbolically conservative, operationally liberal
Identifying with a conservative label while preferring progressive policy, item by item. The label and the policy preferences move independently, so a voter can call themselves conservative and still vote for a minimum wage increase, medical marijuana, or voting rights restoration.
preemption
When the state legislature overrides what a city or county has the authority to decide, either by taking the subject away from local government entirely or by voiding an ordinance already passed.
supermajority threshold
A rule requiring more than a simple majority to pass something. Florida requires 60 percent approval for a constitutional amendment, which means 40.1 percent of voters can defeat 59.9 percent.
Change it
The machinery is boring on purpose
Preemption, thresholds, exemptions, committee death, and the rest of the gears that turn majorities into nothing. Learn six of them and you will read Florida news differently. Learn what moves them and you can start pushing back.
How Florida actually changes