The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad is being sent to the Beaver Street Enterprise Center in Northwest Jacksonville after receiving reports of a “suspicious package” at the polling site, according to officials.

The final push to Election Day is bringing many voters out, including Mayor Donna Deegan.

Early voting is underway, and it raised questions for some Jacksonville Today readers. We’ll tackle two of them today.

Neptune Beach Police Chief Michael Key ensured voters would continue to be safe after a teen pulled out a machete to intimidate voters. Now, the Duval County Supervisor of Elections is also echoing those sentiments.

Jacksonville Today reader Julie S. wonders about the cost of mailing back a beefy ballot.

More than a dozen voting machines in Duval County were tested for accuracy Saturday morning ahead of November’s general election.

The Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said that the county’s election results are being affected by a temporary interruption.

Tuesday is the last chance for Florida voters to cast a ballot in the state’s primary, following early voting over the past two weeks, as well as opportunities to cast a ballot by mail.

Some Northeast Florida poll locations have changed for the 2024 Primary

The Duval County Supervisor of Elections encouraged residents to be informed on candidates because of fake voter guides being circulated.

Jerry Holland, the Duval County Supervisor of Elections, is sounding the alarm that critical money his office requested was left out of the mayor’s proposed budget.

Q. A Jacksonville Today reader, Carol B., wants to know whether a digital vote-by-mail ballot is a real voting option in Florida.

Between an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and an-all new presumptive Democratic nominee, a lot has changed in the last week and a half politically. What has also changed is the number of people switching parties in Duval County.

Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland reminded voters of the importance of ensuring their current signature matches the one their office has on file ahead of the upcoming primary and general elections.

Florida election officials learned from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) how to protect local elections from artificial intelligence being used to spread misinformation.

The presidential primary election wrapped at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

With Florida’s primary on the horizon, there are some changes voters need to know about when they get ready to head to the polls.

For some, the location has not been ideal and that is why Supervisor of Election Jerry Holland is now proposing moving the election center, downtown.

Across the country, during the 2020 presidential election, election workers came under fire and were even threatened by upset voters questioning the voting process

The next statewide election in Florida, the presidential primary, is a little more than six months away.

The race for Jacksonville’s mayor is not over yet as two candidates will move on to the general election in May. It remains to be seen how things will play out for voters who supported candidates outside of those top two.

The sheriff, supervisor of elections, tax collector and several city council candidates are running unopposed in the upcoming municipal elections in seven weeks.

As Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is set to leave office in seven months, he wants voters to weigh in on the fate of other local politicians in office that are looking to switch to other elected jobs.

Amendment 3, if approved, would increase the homestead exemption for teachers, law enforcement officers and active-duty military.

There are three proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution that the Florida Legislature voted to place on the ballot this November.

For about 90 minutes on Friday, Jacksonville city leaders met in private to discuss litigation strategies after a federal judge ordered them to throw out newly drawn district lines and come up with a new map.

While Tuesday night represented a big win for supporters of Duval County’s property tax referendum to fund pay raises for teachers, it could be longer than expected before that revenue lands in teachers’ paychecks.

In two weeks, voters will pick a new Jacksonville sheriff during a special election on August 23. Tuesday the candidates talked to potential voters at a forum with the Northside Business Leaders group at the Jacksonville Zoo.

Homeowners in Jacksonville could get a tax break in the coming year.

This is happening while home insurance rates, home values and construction costs are going up.

Florida lawmakers return to the Capitol this coming week to take up another special legislative session — this time, dealing with property insurance.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that state Rep. Cord Byrd will replace Secretary of State Laurel Lee, a former circuit judge who helped steer Florida through the 2020 elections and is now stepping down after a little more than three years in her post.

A Jacksonville city council member wants to tighten term limits for elected city officials, limiting them to two full terms, period.

Jerry Holland, who currently serves as Duval County’s property appraiser, said Wednesday that he’s filed to run yet again for the position of supervisor of elections.

Within the past year, a handful of local leaders have come forward with the news that they have tested positive for coronavirus.

Like so many people hospitalized with COVID-19 in recent weeks, Duval County Property Appraiser Jerry Holland said he wishes he’d gotten the vaccine.

Duval County Property Appraiser Jerry Holland said he is back home as of Sunday morning after being hospitalized with COVID-19. His wife, Beverly, is still been hospitalized with COVID-19, at Mayo Clinic, Holland confirmed to News4Jax.

On this edition of “This Week in Jacksonville,” U.S. Rep. Al Lawson talks about a wide variety of issues, including the border crisis, the proposed infrastructure bill and the COVID-19 vaccine. Then former Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland joins the show to talk about his experiences with voting systems and the new voting law in Georgia. Finally, tech expert Ian Kahn joins the show to talk about vaccine passports and his views on whether they will be required in the future.

Must expose real signatures!”We reviewed the consent decree and it contains nothing that would prevent Georgia election clerks from scrutinizing signatures. Georgia state leaders agreed, signing the consent decree in March to set statewide standards for judging signatures on absentee ballot envelopes. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said that not only is it entirely possible to match signatures but that the state requires it. Election officials compare that signature to the signature in voter registration files before a ballot is sent to the voter, Raffensperger said. This process was spelled out in detail in the consent decree, a legal settlement that was signed March 6.

Nearly a week after Election Day, many Americans are still questioning the results, making claims of voter fraud and illegal votes being counted. ClaimOne claim is that illegal votes were counted in the 2020 election and that helped Joe Biden become the projected president-elect. It’s a corrupt system”That statement has put focus on states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada -- states he claims he won. Trump stated there were 100 million mail-in ballots. That meant mail-in ballots couldn’t be opened until after the polls opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For decades, Florida has been in the national spotlight on Election Night when it comes to ballot counts. Tuesday night was no different, except this time, Florida did everything right, perhaps learning on the lessons from the 2000 election. Ron DeSantis praised the state’s election officials' handling of the ballot count. Florida is one of the many states that processed mail-in ballots before election day. When asked how hard it is to change the process, Holland responded:“It really comes in the state’s -- the pressure and desire for them to change.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Beverly Holland, the wife of the Duval County property appraiser who was charged with stealing a campaign sign belonging to the man who ran against her husband in the election has had her case moved into pretrial diversion, News4Jax learned Wednesday. The petit theft charge against Holland was filed in April after Kurt Kraft traced the sign with a GPS tracker that he had placed on the sign. PREVIOUS STORY: Property appraiser's wife accused of swiping opponent's campaign signKraft was running against Jerry Holland, who was reelected as property appraiser in March. Her case will be reviewed in August. If Bevery Holland meets the conditions of pretrial deferment, the charge will be dropped.