103.011
Electors of President and Vice President.
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103.011 Electors of President and Vice President.—Electors of President and Vice President, known as presidential electors, shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year the number of which is a multiple of 4. Votes cast for the actual candidates for President and Vice President shall be counted as votes cast for the presidential electors supporting such candidates. The Department of State shall certify as elected the presidential electors of the candidates for President and Vice President who receive the highest number of votes.
History.—ss. 2, 3, ch. 3879, 1889; RS 157; s. 4, ch. 4328, 1895; s. 3, ch. 4537, 1897; GS 174; RGS 218; CGL 253; s. 2, ch. 25383, 1949; s. 7, ch. 26870, 1951; ss. 10, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 32, ch. 77-175.
Note.—Former s. 98.07.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 2000–2020 · leading case: Bush v. Gore
Bush v. Gore (2000)
“Fla. Stat. Ann. § 103.011 (1992). Under the statute, "[v]otes cast for the actual candidates for President and Vice President shall be counted as votes cast for the presidential electors supporting such candidates.”
Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris (2000)
“§ 103.011, Fla. Stat. (2000). By providing for the popular election of presidential electors, Florida's Legislature has also placed that election under Florida's general statutory election scheme.”
Gore v. Harris (2000)
“Pursuant to the authority extended by the United States Constitution, in section 103.011, Florida Statutes (2000), the Legislature has expressly vested in the citizens of the State of Florida the right to select the electors for President and Vice President of the United States:…”
Nancy Carola Jacobsen v. Florida Secretary of State (2020)
“Chapter 103 primarily addresses the procedures that govern the electors who cast Florida’s votes for President of the United States in the electoral college, Fla. Stat. §§ 103.011-103.141 , and Chapter 104 sets forth criminal penalties for violating Election Code provisions, id.”
Troy Jackson v. Officer Griffith (2019)
“§ 103.011(1)(c) (providing that such appeals “must be received within 15 calendar days from the date the response to the formal grievance is returned to the inmate”).”
Fladell v. Labarga (2000)
“" For presidential elections, section 103.011 provides that "The Department of State shall certify as elected the presidential electors of the candidates for President and Vice President who receive the highest number of votes.”
— 103.011(1)(c) — 1 case
Troy Jackson v. Officer Griffith (2019)
“§ 103.011(1)(c) (providing that such appeals “must be received within 15 calendar days from the date the response to the formal grievance is returned to the inmate”).”
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