Hollywood, Florida sample ballot 2026

Walker is a prosecutor at the Broward State Attorney's Office, where she has served since April 2017 as lead prosecutor for the Hate Crimes Unit and has handled public corruption, homicide, and home invasion cases, per the campaign site. Walker chairs the Broward County Hate Crimes Task Force and was appointed to the Broward Sheriff's Office Social Justice Task Force, per the campaign site.

Debi Gheorge Alten is a private-practice attorney who has run her own firm since 1999, with a 28-year career spanning civil litigation, criminal, family, bankruptcy, appellate, and immigration law, per her campaign site.

Shuham has served as an elected Hollywood city commissioner since 2018 and holds a civil engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from the University of Maryland, working as a construction lawyer, per the campaign site.

Archibald "A.J." Ryan IV is a small business owner in real estate and insurance, a former Mayor of Dania Beach, and a current Dania Beach City Commissioner who chaired the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, per his campaign site.

Eugen Mihai Bold served as director of public policy for Broward County Commissioner Tim Ryan from 2019 to 2024, working on infrastructure, housing, and public safety, and earlier worked on accountability issues in the U.S. Senate; he holds an MBA and a Master of Public Administration, per his campaign launch announcement.

Bulman is a local attorney and former Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica who also worked as an attorney at Legal Services, and is a mother of four sons in Broward County Public Schools, per the campaign site.

Kimmel has spent 22 years as a professor of teacher education at Broward College, was the founding assistant principal at Sagemont School, and directed grants for the South Florida Annenberg Challenge, per the campaign site. Kimmel was named Broward County Teacher of the Year in 1996 and holds a doctorate in child, youth, and family studies from Nova Southeastern University, per the campaign site.

Morst is a mother of three Broward County Public Schools students who became involved in school advocacy after identifying security gaps at her daughter's school, per the campaign site.

Cervera is an attorney practicing business litigation and administrative proceedings, holding a law degree from Florida International University, per the campaign site. Cervera is a graduate of Broward County Public Schools and previously worked in child advocacy through FIU Law's Juvenile Justice and Education Advocacy Clinics, per the campaign site.

Fernandez has spent 20 years with Broward County Public Schools, currently as an instructional facilitator in the Department of School Culture and Student Support, after teaching social studies at Boyd H. Anderson and Plantation high schools, per the campaign site. Fernandez is an Army Reserve veteran who served as a civil affairs specialist from 2000 to 2008 and was named Florida's Social Studies Teacher of the Year in 2013, per the campaign site.

Rochelle "Shelly" Soffer, of Coconut Creek, is an educator with years of Broward classroom experience who argues the board needs classroom perspective rather than boardroom background, per her campaign site and League of Women Voters forum coverage.

Dominique is an Army Reserve veteran, nurse practitioner, and university educator who has spent nearly a decade in classrooms and district leadership roles, per the campaign site. Dominique chairs the North Area Advisory Council covering more than 65 schools and is a Broward County native and Coconut Creek High School graduate, per the campaign site.

Zeman is an economist and owner of a data analytics company who is seeking re-election to the Broward County School Board, per the campaign site. Zeman has four daughters attending Broward Public Schools, per the campaign site.

Sonja Azim, of Plantation, has spent nearly 20 years in education as a special education teacher, ESE specialist, dean of students, and district trainer, starting her career as a special-education paraprofessional, per her campaign site.

Ashley Moody is Florida's incumbent U.S. senator and the Republican nominee in the 2026 special election for the final two years of Marco Rubio's term. Appointed in January 2025 when Rubio became secretary of state, she previously served as Florida attorney general and as a circuit judge.

• Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 50-50 in July 2025 with the Vice President breaking the tie. Supported
• Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the Senate 77-20 in October 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the November 2025 funding agreement that ended the government shutdown, which passed the Senate 60-40 in November 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the March 2025 full-year stopgap funding bill, which passed the Senate 54-46 in March 2025. Supported

Nixon is a Florida state representative from Jacksonville and a former union organizer running for the U.S. Senate, per the campaign site. She has said her mother worked two jobs and that she lost a cousin to gun violence, and she has led opposition to congressional and legislative maps drawn under Governor DeSantis, per the campaign site.

Donalds is a member of Congress representing Florida's 19th District since 2020, per the campaign site. Before Congress, he worked in the finance, insurance and banking industries in Southwest Florida and served in the Florida House of Representatives, where he chaired the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee and led the effort to enact Hope Scholarships for school choice, per the campaign site. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Florida State University in 2002, per the campaign site.

• Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the November 2025 funding agreement that ended the government shutdown, which passed the House 222-209 in November 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the September 2025 stopgap funding bill, which passed the House 217-212 in September 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the March 2025 full-year stopgap funding bill, which passed the House 217-213 in March 2025. Supported

David Jolly is the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, a former Republican congressman from the Tampa Bay area who left the GOP and joined the Democratic Party in 2025. His campaign emphasizes affordability, property insurance reform, public schools, and ending one-party control of Tallahassee.

James Uthmeier is Florida's incumbent attorney general and the Republican candidate in the 2026 election. Appointed in February 2025 after serving as Governor DeSantis's chief of staff, he is seeking a full term. Per the state qualifying list, he and Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez advance directly to the November ballot.

Jose Javier Rodriguez is an attorney, a former Florida state representative and state senator from Miami, and a former U.S. assistant secretary of labor, per the campaign site. His campaign says he would focus the office on crime, costs and corruption and serve as an independent-minded enforcer of the law, per the campaign site.

Blaise Ingoglia is Florida's incumbent chief financial officer and the Republican nominee in the 2026 election. Appointed in July 2025, he previously served in the Florida Senate and House and as state party chair.

Annette Taddeo is a Florida state senator, the first Latina Democrat elected to the Florida State Senate, first elected in a 2017 special election, per the campaign site.

Simpson is a fifth-generation Floridian and lifelong farmer who operates a large-scale egg-laying operation supplying Florida supermarkets, per the campaign site. He currently serves as Florida's Agriculture Commissioner and previously served in the state Senate, per the campaign site.

Joey Mendoza Atkins is the Democratic nominee for Florida agriculture commissioner. A lifelong Floridian, he earned a political science degree cum laude and a law degree, worked as a family-law attorney, and represented athletes as a Miami-area sports agent. His platform focuses on grocery costs, local farmers, and affordability.