OFFICIAL GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT LIBERTY COUNTY, FL NOVEMBER 2, 2004 STYLE 1

A B C TO VOTE, COMPLETELY FILL IN THE OVAL NEXT TO YOUR 11 CHOICE. STATE Shall Judge Charles J. Kahn, Jr. of the First District Court of Appeal be retained USE BLACK OR BLUE in office? BALLPOINT PEN. STATE ATTORNEY 2ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (Vote for One) IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE, DON'T YES HESITATE TO ASK FOR A NEW BALLOT. IF YOU ERASE OR MAKE OTHER MARKS, YOUR Harry Hooper REP NO VOTE MAY NOT COUNT.

TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE William N. "Willie" Meggs DEM Shall Judge Phil Padovano of the First WHOSE NAME IS NOT PRINTED District Court of Appeal be retained in ON THE BALLOT, FILL IN THE office? 21 LEGISLATIVE OVAL, AND WRITE IN THE CANDIDATE'S NAME ON THE BLANK LINE PROVIDED FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE YES WRITE-IN CANDIDATE. DISTRICT 7 (Vote for One) PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT NO

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT David Coley REP Shall Judge James R. Wolf of the First (Vote for One) District Court of Appeal be retained in office? Carl Joaquin Duncan DEM

George W. Bush REP COUNTY YES Dick Cheney COUNTY COMMISSIONER NO DISTRICT 1 (Vote for One) John F. Kerry DEM PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL John Edwards AMENDMENTSE Albert "Butch" Butcher DEM NO. 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE X, SECTION 22 40 Michael A. Peroutka CPF B.W. Phillips NPA Chuck Baldwin ARTICLE X 41 COUNTY COMMISSIONER MISCELLANEOUS DISTRICT 5 (Vote for One) Section 22. Parental notice of 42 Michael Badnarik LIB termination of a minor's Richard V. Campagna pregnancy. The legislature shall not limit or deny the privacy right 43 Donnie D. Phillips REP guaranteed to a minor under the UnitedL States Constitution as David Cobb GRE L. B. Arnold DEM interpreted by the United States Patricia LaMarche Supreme Court. Notwithstanding a minor's right of privacy provided NONPARTISAN in Section 23 of Article I, the Legislature is authorized to James Harris SWP JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT require by general law for Margaret Trowe Shall Justice Kenneth B. Bell of the notification to a parent or guardian Supreme Court be retained in office? of a minor before the termination of the minor's pregnancy. The Legislature shall provide exceptions to such requirement Walter F. Brown SPF YES for notification and shall create a Mary Alice Herbert process for judicial waiver of the NO Pnotification. 51 Ralph Nader REF Shall Justice Raoul G. Cantero III of the YES Peter Miguel Camejo Supreme Court be retained in office? NO

CONGRESSIONAL YES NO. 2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE IV, SECTION 10 UNITED STATES SENATOR NO (Vote for One) ARTICLE XI, SECTION 5 DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL Constitutional Amendments Proposed Shall Judge Michael E. Allen of By Initiative the First District Court of Appeal Mel Martinez REP be retained in office? Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require the Betty Castor DEM YES sponsor of a constitutional M amendment proposed by citizen initiative to file the initiative Dennis F. Bradley VET NO petition with the Secretary of State by February 1 of the year of a general election in order to have Write-in Shall Judge Edward T. Barfield of the the measure submitted to the First District Court of Appeal be retained electors for approval or rejection in office? REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS at the following November's DISTRICT 2 general election, and to require (Vote for One) the Florida Supreme Court to YES render an advisory opinion addressing the validity of an initiative petition by April 1 of the Bev Kilmer REP NO year in which the amendment is to be submitted to the electors. Allen Boyd DEM Shall JudgeA Paul Hawkes of the First District Court of Appeal be retained in office? Write-in YES

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NO. 3 NO. 5 NO. 8 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE I, SECTION 26 ARTICLE X ARTICLE X, SECTION 20

The Medical Liability Claimant's Florida Minimum Wage Amendment Public Protection from Repeated Compensation Amendment Medical Malpractice This amendment creates a Proposes to amend the State Florida minimum wage covering Current law allows medical Constitution to provide that an all employees in the state covered doctors who have committed injured claimant who enters into a by the federal minimum wage. repeated malpractice to be contingency fee agreement with The state minimum wage will start licensed to practice medicine in an attorney in a claim for medical at $6.15 per hour six months after Florida. This amendment prohibits liability is entitled to no less than enactment, and thereafter be medical doctors who have been 70% of the first $250,000.00 in all indexed to inflation each year. It found to have committed three or damages received by the provides for enforcement, more incidents of medical claimant, and 90% of damages in including double damages for malpractice from being licensed to excess of $250,000.00, exclusive unpaid wages, attorney's fees, practice medicine in Florida. of reasonable and customary and fines by the state. It forbids costs and regardless of the retaliation against employees for The direct financial impact on number of defendants. This exercising this right. state and local governments amendment is intended to be resulting from the proposed self-executing. The impact of this amendment on initiative would be minimal. There costs and revenues of state and will likely be additional costs to The direct financial impact this local governments is expected to the state of less than $1 million amendment will have on state and be minimal. per year, but these costs will be local government revenues and offset by licensure fees. expenditures cannot be determined. YES YES YES NO NO NO E NO. 4 NO. 6 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE X, SECTION 19 ARTICLE X, SECTION 19

Authorizes Miami-Dade and Broward Repeal of High Speed Rail County Voters to Approve Slot Amendment Machines in Parimutuel Facilities This amendment repeals an Authorizes Miami-Dade and amendment in the Florida Broward Counties to hold Constitution that requires the referenda on whether to authorize Legislature, the Cabinet and the slot machines in existing, licensed Governor to proceed with the parimutuel facilities (thoroughbred development and operation of a L and harness racing, greyhound high speed ground transportation racing, and jai alai) that have system by the state and/or by a conducted live racing or games in private entity. that county during each of the last two calendar years before The probable financial impact of effective date of this amendment. passage of this amendment is a The Legislature may tax slot state cost savings ranging from machine revenues, and any such $20 billion to $25 billion over the taxes must supplement public next 30 years. This estimate education funding statewide. assumes the repeal of associated Requires implementing laws, the use of state bonds to legislation. finance construction, and could be reduced by federal or private This amendment alone has no sector funding. fiscal impact on government. If P slot machines are authorized in Miami-Dade or Broward counties, YES governmental costs associated with additional gambling will NO increase by an unknown amount and local sales tax-related revenues will be reduced by $5 NO. 7 million to $8 million annually. If the CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Legislature also chooses to tax ARTICLE X, SECTION 22 slot machine revenues, state tax revenues from Miami-Dade and Patients' Right to Know About Broward counties combined Adverse Medical Incidents would range from $200 million to $500 million annually. Current Florida law restricts information available to patients related to investigations of YES adverse medical incidents, such as medical malpractice.M This amendment would give patients NO the right to review, upon request, records of health care facilities' or providers' adverse medical incidents, including those which could cause injury or death. Provides that patients' identities should not be disclosed.

The direct financial impact this amendment will have on state and local government revenues and expenditures cannot be determined, but is expected to be minimal.A State agencies will incur some additional costs to comply with public records requirements of the amendment, but these costs will be generally offset by fees charged to the persons requesting the information.

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