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Elections in the U.S. state of Florida are held on the first Tuesday, after the first Monday of November in even numbered years as provided for in Article 6 of the Florida Constitution.Voter qualifications
All citizens of the United States, over the age of eighteen and who are permanent residents of the state, may register to vote as a qualified elector of Florida unless they are convicted of a felony or found to be mentally incompetent.

[edit] State elections
The Governor of Florida, Lieutenant Governor and the members of the Florida Cabinet are elected every four years. Members of the Florida House of Representatives are elected every two years, while members of the Florida Senate are elected every four years. Candidates for the Florida legislature may serve no more than 8 years in either house.

[edit] Florida in national elections
Florida received international attention for its role in the 2000 Presidential election, where Bush led Gore by only a couple of hundred votes when the Supreme Court of the United States ended a recount. It had also played a role in the equally contested 1876 Presidential election and is often seen as one of the key swing states in Presidential elections.[2]

Florida held its 2008 Presidential primary on January 29, 2008 after a bill was passed in May 2007 moving it forward in the electoral calendar.[3] This move was in violation of party rules restricting primaries held before February 5 to Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The Democratic Party eventually decided to strip Florida of all its 210 delegates in the Democrats' convention, while the Republicans stripped Florida of half its delegates to the GOP convention. A federal judge dismissed a suit from Democratic Senator Bill Nelson against the DNC and chairman Howard Dean to overturn this decision.[4]