Voters in Miami-Dade County were still voting well beyond midnight, according to a Tweet from Secretary of State spokesman Chris Cate.
It's 1:42 in the morning and I just heard there are still people voting in Miami-Dade County. Kudos to their commitment to voting, Cate tweeted.
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President Barack Obama has won the most expensive political race in U.S. history.
The 2012 Election was over for Republican Mitt Romney the minute virtually all news networks called pivotal swing-state Ohio for Obama.
The former governor of Massachusetts had just lost Wisconsin, Paul Ryan's home state, a state Republicans hoped Ryan would deliver when Romney selected him as his running mate.
In a decisive rebuke to the constitutional agenda of the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature, voters have rejected all but three of the 11 amendments put before them on the general election ballot.
Amendments 2, 9, and 11 passed the required 60 percent threshold of voter support. They each extend homestead exemptions to special classes of persons: respectively, wounded veterans, surviving spouses of servicemen and first responders killed in the line of duty, and low-income seniors.
The rest did not even pass with a simple majority. They were:
State Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Lake Mary, who is in line to become House president, continues to fight for his political life.
Dorworth, a prolific fundraiser, was expected to easily win the Republican-leaning district, but instead finds himself 37 votes behind Democratic challenger Mike Clelland, a firefighter from Longwood.
A recount is expected as absentee and provisional ballots remain uncounted.
Meanwhile, Democrats were also able to grab a number of other Central Florida seats, erasing the House GOPs supermajority for the next two sessions.
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has just conceded the contest to President Obama.
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The latest numbers in the House District 18 contest on Florida's Treasure Coast puts Democrat Patrick Murphy slightly ahead of U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Palm Beach Gardens.
With numbers that have teetered back and forth all night, just after midnight Murphy was up by less than 1,000 votes out of 309,758 cast. Ballots remain uncounted in all three counties -- Martin, St. Lucie and Palm Beach.
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Three controversial Florida Supreme Court justices have won retention to their seats on the state's high court, despite a high-profile campaign against them by critics who insisted they were left-wing activists unworthy of their office.
With about 91 percent of precincts reporting their vote totals, Justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince each received about 68 percent YES votes, a margin of victory well within the historic average. No Florida judge has ever lost a retention race.
