CRC - 2017                                                  P 11
       
       
        
       By Commissioners Plymale and Timmann
       
       plymales-00009A-17                                      201711__
    1                         A proposal to amend                       
    2         Section 5 of Article VI of the State Constitution to
    3         authorize all qualified electors, regardless of party
    4         affiliation, to vote in a partisan primary election
    5         for an office if all the candidates for the office
    6         have the same party affiliation and the winner will be
    7         opposed only by one or more write-in candidates in the
    8         general election.
    9          
   10  Be It Proposed by the Constitution Revision Commission of
   11  Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 5 of Article VI of the State Constitution is
   14  amended to read:
   15                             ARTICLE VI                            
   16                       SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS                      
   17         SECTION 5. Primary, general, and special elections.—
   18         (a) A general election shall be held in each county on the
   19  first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even
   20  numbered year to choose a successor to each elective state and
   21  county officer whose term will expire before the next general
   22  election and, except as provided herein, to fill each vacancy in
   23  elective office for the unexpired portion of the term. A general
   24  election may be suspended or delayed due to a state of emergency
   25  or impending emergency pursuant to general law. Special
   26  elections and referenda shall be held as provided by law.
   27         (b) If all candidates for an office have the same party
   28  affiliation and the winner will have either no opposition in the
   29  general election, or opposition only from one or more write-in
   30  candidates, then all qualified electors, regardless of party
   31  affiliation, may vote in the primary elections for that office.