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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 100
GENERAL, PRIMARY, SPECIAL, BOND, AND REFERENDUM ELECTIONS
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F.S. 100.241
100.241 Freeholder voting; election; penalties for ineligible persons who vote as freeholders.
(1) In any election or referendum in which only electors who are freeholders are qualified to vote, the regular registration books covering the precincts located within the geographical area in which the election or referendum is to be held shall be used.
(2) Qualification and registration of electors participating in a freeholder election or referendum subject to this section shall be the same as prescribed for voting in other elections under this code, and, in addition, each such elector shall submit a written declaration, verified pursuant to s. 92.525, affirming that the elector is a freeholder who is a qualified elector residing in the county, district, or municipality in which the election or referendum is to be held.
(3) Each registered elector who submits the written declaration giving a legal description, address, or location of property in the elector’s name which is not wholly exempt from taxation is entitled to vote in the election or referendum and is considered a freeholder.
(4) The actual costs of conducting a freeholder election or referendum subject to this section shall be paid by the county, district, or municipality requiring the election or referendum.
(5) A person may not vote in any county, district, or other election or referendum which is limited to a vote of the electors who are freeholders, unless the person is a freeholder and a qualified elector. A person who violates this subsection commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 9294, 1923; CGL 250; ss. 4, 6, 14, ch. 14715, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 457(4), (6), (14); s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 4, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 1, ch. 61-332; s. 5, ch. 65-240; s. 5, ch. 69-377; s. 12, ch. 77-175; s. 2, ch. 91-224; s. 548, ch. 95-147; s. 1, ch. 2012-156.
Note.Former ss. 98.03, 103.04, 103.06, 103.14.

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Amendments to 100.241


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 100.241
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S100.241 5 - ELECTION LAWS - NON QUALIFIED ELECTOR FREEHOLDER - M: F



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

STATE v. COUNTY OF SARASOTA,, 197 So. 2d 521 (Fla. 1967)

. . . established their right to vote in the bond election under the provisions of Subsection (4-) of Section 100.241 . . . persons finally found ineligible cast a ballot because, so it is argued, it is provided in Sections 100.241 . . . County of Sarasota, Fla.1953, 62 So.2d 708. .See Section 100.241, Florida Statutes 1965. . . .

STATE v. COUNTY OF SARASOTA,, 155 So. 2d 543 (Fla. 1963)

. . . the special bond election, including 3,406 who qualified at the polls under subsection (2) (d) of § 100.241 . . .

STATE v. COUNTY OF DADE,, 125 So. 2d 833 (Fla. 1960)

. . . 47,075 freeholders who had not reregistered qualified by signing affidavits in compliance with Section 100.241 . . . This issue involves a supposed conflict between Section 97.081(3) and Section 100.241(2) (a), infra. . . . The appellants attack the validity of Section 100.241(2) (d), which allows a freeholder to qualify by . . . Section 100.241(2) (d) is to the effect that any registered elector “who is not shown as a freeholder . . . Where these statutes operate in conjunction, the provision in Section 100.241(2) (d) for qualification . . .

SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. OF DUVAL COUNTY, v. STATE, 123 So. 2d 316 (Fla. 1960)

. . . appear on the list of reregistered voters, but who qualified pursuant to the provisions of Section 100.241 . . . so reregistered added to those who appear at the polls and qualify under the provisions of Section 100.241 . . . such electors who reregistered as supplemented by those permitted to vote under the provisions of Sec. 100.241 . . . reregistration records as supplemented by the number who qualified at the polls under the provisions of Chapter 100.241 . . .

DADE COUNTY v. STATE FLORIDA,, 16 Fla. Supp. 126 (Dade Cty. Cir. Ct. 1960)

. . . That section 97.081, Florida Statutes, and section 100.241, Florida Statutes (portions of the “Election . . . urged all qualified freeholders to reregister, (b) informed citizens of their rights under section 100.241 . . . considered, construed and sustained the validity and constitutionality of section 97.081 and section 100.241 . . . The effect of this decision, as implemented in part by Sec. 100.241 (2) (d), is merely to extend the . . . reregistered, as supplemented by those who qualified at the election under the provisions of section 100.241 . . .

SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT No. DUVAL COUNTY, v. STATE OF FLORIDA,, 16 Fla. Supp. 110 (Duval Cty. Cir. Ct. 1960)

. . . Section 100.241, Florida Statutes. . . . permanent) registration books must be used and the number of freeholders determined therefrom (section 100.241 . . . reregistration records, as supplemented by the number who qualified at the polls under the provisions of section 100.241 . . .

BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF LAKE COUNTY, On SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE OF LAKE COUNTY, v. STATE, 119 So. 2d 683 (Fla. 1960)

. . . The second question challenges that part of the validation decree holding § 100.241, Florida Statutes . . .

STATE v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY, SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY,, 113 So. 2d 368 (Fla. 1959)

. . . freeholders, who had not reregistered, were allowed to vote upon making affidavits in accordance with Sec. 100.241 . . . such electors who reregistered as supplemented by those permitted to vote under the provisions of Sec. 100.241 . . . The effect of this decision, as implemented in part by Sec. 100.241(2) (d), is merely to extend the time . . . those who reregister as supplemented by those who shall later qualify under the provisions of Sec. 100.241 . . .