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Candidates for State Rep. District 10
By Dana Cassidy | Oct. 21, 2018Eleven years ago, Chuck Brannan lost his wife of 18 years in a traffic crash.
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Candidates for County Commission
By McKenna Beery | Oct. 21, 2018Scott Costello was tired of reading bad news about Gainesville.
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Letter to the Editor: Make class optional on Election Day
Oct. 21, 2018Making class optional on Election Day would help students vote
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Ridesharing app offering free rides to polls and governor candidate-themed cereal boxes
By Annelise O’Donnell | Oct. 9, 2018People who donate at least $40 will get a themed cereal box
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Professor says fear of changing America convinced Trump supporters
By Amber Bond | Apr. 6, 2018A professor who claims to be one of the few to have foreseen President Donald Trump would win the 2016 presidential election visited UF.
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District 1 goes to runoff, Johnson wins At-Large seat
Mar. 20, 2018Gail Johnson walked into First Magnitude Brewing Company with her arms raised to silence the crowd of about 60 supporters who were still watching voter results pour in.
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Who will win the upcoming city elections? Here’s what former Alachua County politicians think
By Amanda Rosa | Mar. 18, 2018An online panel of Alachua County and Gainesville politicians and political experts predicted City Commissioners Charles Goston and Harvey Budd will be re-elected in Tuesday’s municipal election.
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Meet The Candidate: Gigi Simmons, City Commission District 1
By Meryl Kornfield | Mar. 11, 2018Gigi Simmons didn’t just want to be a single mother without an education. She wasn’t going to be a statistic.
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Meet The Candidate: Charles Goston, City Commission District 1
By Elliott Nasby | Mar. 11, 2018Charles Goston doesn’t care if you remember his name in ten years — so long as the effect he had in Gainesville is everlasting.
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Meet The Candidate: Tyra Edwards, City Commission District 1
By Jessica Giles | Mar. 11, 2018Tyra Edwards earned her nickname “Ty Loudd” for being a prominent voice of District 1. Now she wants to take that voice to the City Commission.
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Meet The Candidate: Harvey Budd, City Commission at-large
By Robert Lewis | Mar. 11, 2018Commissioner at large and Mayor Pro Tempore Harvey Budd is running for re-election because he feels incomplete.
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Meet The Candidate: Gail Johnson, City Commission at-large
By Amanda Rosa | Mar. 11, 2018Politics wasn’t on Gail Johnson’s radar until the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Here’s what could happen if no party wins a majority for the SG executive ticket
By David Hoffman | Feb. 19, 2018A UF Student Government party will have to win more than 50 percent of the student vote to avoid a second election next week.
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In November, Florida will elect a new governor. UF students met with one of the candidates Tuesday afternoon.
By David Hoffman | Jan. 9, 2018When former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine asked a room of about 20 UF students whether they watched Gov. Rick Scott’s final State of the State address earlier that morning, not a single person raised their hand.
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Art project promotes connectivity for election anniversary
By Christina Morales | Nov. 8, 2017On the one year anniversary of the 2016 presidential election, Marcela Mulholland wanted people to connect.
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Meet the Candidates: Gainesville's City Commission election
Mar. 13, 2017Voting for City Commission is today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The races on the ballot are commissioners for District 2, District 3 and At-Large Seat 2.
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UF students hold City Commission candidate forum
By Molly Vossler | Mar. 1, 2017Gainesville City Commission candidates were all in agreement Wednesday night: The commission must involve younger community members, primarily UF students, in local elections.
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‘Only one man’: Hundreds rally outside City Hall against Trump
By Martin Vassolo | Nov. 11, 2016The crowd grew quickly outside Gainesville’s City Hall on Thursday evening. Just days removed from the presidential election, hundreds of anti-Donald Trump supporters listened on as students, faculty members and community leaders painted an apocalyptic portrait of the billionaire’s impending presidency.
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Column: The Electoral College - a transient election topic
Feb. 10, 2016America’s Founding Fathers have proven to be among the most influential people to have ever walked Earth. Several of the ideas and philosophical concepts that helped build this country more than 200 years ago remain applicable today. However, as visionary as they might have been, not all parts of their original design stand the test of time. Like the Founding Fathers, the Electoral College needs to become a part of America’s history, not its reality.
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As election season approaches, the Alligator is always receptive to feedback
Feb. 3, 2015Slating for seats in Student Government ended at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Participation was high this semester: 617 students slated for Swamp Party, while 175 slated for the most recent incarnation of its opposition, Access Party. All in all, it was a civil affair — enthusiasm for the political process met the machinery of SG bureaucracy, signing up students to run for seats and affect the future of this university.
