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Voters and volunteers poll workers go about the business of casting ballots at Precinct #516 in the North Greenwood Recreation Complex on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Clearwater. Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time across Florida and will stay open until the last voter in line by 7 p.m. has cast a ballot.
Election 2020 updates: The day after, what comes next?
Hour by hour, the latest on the outcome of the balloting in Florida and nationwide.
Voters approve amendment supporting Florida minimum wage increase
Kinoy Miller prepares food at the Love Life Cafe Oct. 29 in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami. Florida voters decided Tuesday whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over six years.
Measure to bring the hourly amount up to $15 over the next few years barely passed the 60 percent threshold.
Republicans maintain control of Florida Senate
Florida state election results: Legislature, Amendments, more
Republicans may even grow their majority.
Tampa Bay election results: Here’s who won local and state races
Staff at the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections receive and count ballots late into the night on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 in Tampa.
Charlie Crist, Kathy Castor and Gus Bilirakis all won reelection, as did sheriffs Chad Chronister and Bob Gualtieri.

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  1. A St. Petersburg man bet $100 on a Trump win. Now he’s being sued for not paying up.
    Earlier today• Elections
    Final 2020 presidential campaign debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Nashville, Tennessee, is seen on TV in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
  2. Tampa Bay singer used voice for screaming during Capitol riot
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Audrey Ann Southard, in a YouTube video from inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, left, and outside in a photo from her Facebook page.
  3. Tom Hanks heads TV special celebrating Biden’s inauguration
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, file photo, Tom Hanks arrives at the People's Choice Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Hanks will host a 90-minute primetime TV special celebrating the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States.
  5. Trump legacy on race shadowed by divisive rhetoric, actions
    Jan. 10• Elections
    President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News virtual town hall from the Lincoln Memorial on May 3.
  6. What Biden’s Cabinet picks say about how he plans to govern
    Jan. 10• Elections
    President-elect Joe Biden, shown here Dec. 20 in Wilmington, Del., has appointed a Cabinet in sharp contrast with Donald Trump's, which was dominated largely by white men with little experience in Washington.
  7. Trump pressured Georgia to ‘find the fraud’ in earlier call
    Jan. 10• Elections
    Helen Thomason marks her ballot at the Lawrenceville Road United Methodist Church in Tucker, Ga. during the Senate runoff election on Jan. 5.
  8. How will the U.S. Senate work under a 50-50 split? | PolitiFact
    Jan. 9• Elections
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., applauds after no Republican senator joined a House objection to confirming the Electoral College votes from Nevada during a joint session of the House and Senate to confirm the Electoral College votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol, early Thursday in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., watches.
  9. Is it all too much? Move into this woodland tree stump!
    Jan. 7• Opinion
    Welcome to your new home.
  10. No evidence Georgia ‘happened to find’ ballots in Senate runoff, as Trump claims | PolitiFact
    Jan. 7• Elections
    Observers watch an official work as ballots are counted for Georgia's Senate runoff election at the Georgia World Congress Center on Wednesday in Atlanta.
  11. Biden to introduce Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
    Jan. 7• Elections
    Merrick Garland, shown here in November 2017 at Federal District Court in Washington, has experience as a supervisor in the Department of Justice.
  12. Scott votes to decertify Pennsylvania electors; Rubio doesn’t
    Jan. 7• Nation & World
    Florida senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, right, speak to each other before a November forum at URBE University in Doral on Nov. 12, 2019.
  13. Chaos, violence, mockery as pro-Trump mob occupies Congress
    Jan. 7• Nation & World
    Lawmakers evacuate the floor as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington.
  14. West Virginia delegate records himself storming U.S. Capitol
    Jan. 7• Nation & World
    West Virginia House of Delegates member Derrick Evans, left, is given the oath of office Dec. 14, 2020, in the House chamber at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Evans recorded video of himself and fellow supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 prompting calls for his resignation and thousands of signatures on an online petition advocating his removal. (Perry Bennett/West Virginia Legislature via AP)
  15. Biden urges restoring decency after mob’s ‘assault’ on democracy
    Jan. 7• Florida
    President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. Biden has called the violent protests on the U.S. Capitol "an assault on the most sacred of American undertakings: the doing of the people's business."
  16. Pence defies Trump, says he can’t reject electoral votes
    Jan. 7• Nation & World
    Vice President Mike Pence walks back from the House Chamber following a Senate procession carrying boxes holding Electoral College votes through Statuary Hall to the House Chamber for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College votes on Wednesday in Washington.
  17. When can the 25th Amendment be used against a president?
    Jan. 6• Nation & World
    President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
  18. Thousands cheer Trump at rally protesting election results
    Jan. 6• Nation & World
    Trump supporters gather on the Washington Monument grounds in advance of a rally Wednesday in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud.
  19. Biden to name judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
    Jan. 6• Nation & World
    In this July 22, 2019 photo, Merrick Garland pays his respects for the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Garland as Attorney General.
  20. Black turnout and seven other takeaways from the Georgia runoff election
    Jan. 6• Elections
    Voters mark their ballots at the Lawrenceville Road United Methodist Church in Tucker, Ga., during the Senate runoff election Tuesday.
  21. Georgia deciding U.S. Senate control in election’s final day
    Jan. 6• Elections
    Thomas Hedrich sets up voting flags Monday at a polling location in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta, in advance of Tuesday's Senate runoff election.
  22. What to expect when electoral votes are counted on Wednesday
    Jan. 5• Elections
    A stage is set up on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in preparation for a rally Wednesday, when Congress is scheduled to meet to formally finalize the presidential election results.
  23. Loyal soldier Pence torn between Trump, Constitution
    Jan. 5• Elections
    Vice President Mike Pence finishes a swearing-in ceremony Sunday for senators in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington.
  24. Fact-checking Trump’s claims on his call to Georgia official
    Jan. 4• Elections
    A recording was made of a call made to Georgia's secretary of state by President Donald Trump, shown here at the White House in June.
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