Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...se figures indicates that a majority of the electors voting on the bond issue approved the bonds. However, a majority of the voters entering the voting booths did not approve them. The question becomes: Does the term “participating” in Fla.Stat. § 100.281 4 mean voting on the bond issue or entering the voting booth? In State v....

...Antuono v. City of Tampa, 87 Fla. 82 , 99 So. 324 (1924). . State v. City of St. Augustine, 235 So.2d 1 (Fla.1970) ; State v. Dade County, 39 So.2d 807 (Fla.1949) ; and State v. City of Daytona Beach, 160 Fla. 13 , 33 So.2d 218 (1948). . Fla.Stat. § 100.281: “Approval to issue bonds....

...voters entered the polling booths, only 2,851 — less than *27 half- — -voted in favor of the issue. It contends that under State v. Town of Surfside, 104 So.2d 579 (Fla.1958), State v. City of St. Augustine, 235 So.2d 1 (Fla.1970), and Fla.Stat. § 100.281, F.S.A., a majority of those participating, and not just of those voting, must approve the issue....

...be approved by a majority vote of those actually entering the polling booth and qualified to vote, i. e., those “participating” in the election under the definition announced in Town of Surf side. Support for this view also comes from Fla.Stat. § 100.281, enacted after revision....