{"id":29025,"date":"2026-08-05T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29025"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:53:36","slug":"florida-property-tax-ballot-language-misleading-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29025","title":{"rendered":"Florida property tax ballot language misleading, judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Updated Aug. 4, 2026, 3:44 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Tallahassee judge said the title and summary for the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutionalinitiatives.dos.fl.gov\/Home\/InitDetail?account=10&amp;seqnum=110\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">November ballot initiative<\/a> to reduce homeowners&#8217; property tax, originally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/state\/2026\/07\/16\/with-time-ticking-down-desantis-absorbs-fresh-policy-hits\/90921334007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a>, is &#8220;clearly and conclusively defective&#8221; and ordered it rewritten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/initiativepetitions.dos.fl.gov\/InitiativeForms\/FulltextPDF\/10-110.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">state constitutional amendment<\/a>, however, will still be on the ballot; Circuit Judge David Frank made clear he wasn&#8217;t asked to remove it and had no legal authority to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Aug. 4, 2026, 3:44 p.m. ET A Tallahassee judge said the title and summary for the November ballot initiative to reduce homeowners&#8217; property tax, originally proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is &#8220;clearly and conclusively defective&#8221; and ordered it rewritten. The proposed state constitutional amendment, however, will still be on the ballot; Circuit Judge David&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/22\/NSHT\/86836422007-sar-de-santis-sarasota-insurance-008.jpg?crop=7007,3942,x0,y233&width=3200&height=1801&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}