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Select Year: <br />The 2014 Florida Statutes <br />2014 v <br />Go <br />Title IX Chapter 102 View Entire <br />ELECTORS AND CONDUCTING ELECTIONS AND ASCERTAINING Chapter <br />ELECTIONS THE RESULTS <br />102.141 County canvassing board; duties.— <br />(1) The county canvassing board shall be composed of the supervisor of elections; a county court <br />judge, who shall act as chair; and the chair of the board of county commissioners. Alternate canvassing <br />board members must be appointed pursuant to paragraph (e). In the event any member of the county <br />canvassing board is unable to serve, is a candidate who has opposition in the election being canvassed, <br />or is an active participant in the campaign or candidacy of any candidate who has opposition in the <br />election being canvassed, such member shall be replaced as follows: <br />(a) If no county court judge is able to serve or 0 all are disqualified, the chief judge of the judicial <br />circuit in which the county is located shalt appoint as a substitute member a qualified elector of the <br />county who is not a candidate with opposition in the election being canvassed and who is not an active <br />,participant in the campaign or candidacy of any candidate with opposition in the election being <br />canvassed. In such event, the members of the county canvassing board shall meet and elect a chair. <br />(b) If the supervisor of elections is unable to serve or is disqualified, the chair of the board of county <br />commissioners shall appoint as a substitute member a member of the board of county commissioners <br />who is not a candidate with opposition in the electio:-i being canvassed and who is not an active <br />participant in the campaign or candidacy of any candidate with opposition it the election being <br />canvassed. The supervisor, however, shalt act in an advisory capacity to the canvassing board. <br />(c) If the chair cf the board of county commissioners Is unable to serve or is disqualified, the board <br />of county commissioners shall appoint as a substitute member one of its members who is not a candidate <br />with opposition in the election being canvassed and who is not an active participant in the campaign or <br />candidacy of any candidate with opposition in the election being canvassed. <br />(d) If a substitute member or alternate member cannot be appointed as provided elsewhere in this <br />subsection, or in the event of a vacancy in such office, the chief judge of the judicial circuit in which <br />the county is located shalt appoint as a substitute member or alternate member a qualified elector of <br />the county who is not a candidate with opposition in the election being canvassed and who is not an <br />active participant in the campaign or candidacy of any candidate with opposition in the election being <br />canvassed. <br />(e)1. The chief judge of the judicial circuit in which the county is located shall appoint a county <br />court judge as an alternate member of the county •canvassing lard or, if each county court 1radge is <br />unable to serve or is disqualified, shall appoint an alternate member who's qualified to serve as a <br />substitute member under paragrap) (a). <br />Z. The Chair of the board of county commissioners shall appoint a member of the board of county <br />corimissioners as an alternate member of the county canvassing board or, 0 each member of the board <br />http://www. leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfin?mode=View%20Statutes&SubMeriu=1 &App... 3/24/2015 1 22 <br />