- March 12, 2025
As polls closed and votes were tallied after Tuesday’s General Election, the Flagler County Elections Office knew one thing — it needs a new website — and didn’t know another: How many Flagler County residents made it to the polls.
Because so many people were looking for elections results Tuesday evening, the Elections Office’s website exceeded its bandwidth and was deactivated. The same thing happened during August’s primary elections.
“I knew in August that we needed to do something about this,” said Kimberle Weeks, who was re-elected as supervisor of elections for Flagler County. “I couldn’t do anything between the primary and general (elections), but I can’t have this on election nights in the future.”
The Elections Office is in the process of redoing its website using a different vendor, VR Systems Inc. This company successfully hosts websites for 44 other supervisor of elections offices in Florida, Weeks said.
The office hopes to move forward with its new website in early 2013.
Calculating voter turnout from Tuesday's election isn't easy, Weeks said, because its ballot was an unprecedented two pages long.
The unofficial elections summary report generated by Weeks’ office shows that of 69,592 registered voters in Flagler County,100,660 cards were cast.
However, dividing the number of cards cast by the two pages that comprised the ballot won’t give an accurate figure for how many people voted, Weeks said. Many people didn’t vote on the second page of the ballot, so the Elections Office can’t discern how many individuals cast ballots, she said.
Ballots in this election were two pages because amendments to Florida’s constitution were printed on them in full, rather than in the brief summaries that have appeared in the past.
What the office does know is that absentee ballots were up and early voting was down compared to the last presidential race.
In 2008, the Elections Office received 8,166 absentee ballots. At press time, the office had received 10,646 of about 12,000 that were sent out for this election. Weeks said this increase is likely because voters wanted to spend more time with their longer ballots.
Early voting faced a decline, however. Just 19,905 Flagler County residents hit polls early in this election, a decrease from 22,454 early voters in 2008.
