One of three school board seats is on your November ballot

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1. St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections, November 3, 2026 General Election Candidates, St. Johns County, FL , Four pages, linked from the office's 2026 News and Legal Notices page and retrieved Oct. 21, 2026. Headed with the office of Vicky Oakes, Supervisor of Elections, and printed in English and Spanish. Source of the statement that exactly one school board race appears on the general election ballot in this county, which is the heading School Board Member - District 4, and of the two candidates listed under that heading, Tammie McClafferty and Jillian Tozer, both with the party designation N/P. Source of the statement that no County Commissioner heading appears anywhere in the document, and of the full list of office headings it does carry, which are Representative in Congress Districts 5 and 6, Commissioner of Agriculture, State Representative Districts 18, 19 and 20, Fifth District Court of Appeal, School Board Member District 4, City of St. Augustine Commission Seat 5, City of St. Augustine Beach Commission Seat 3, Anastasia Mosquito Control District Seats 2 and 4, St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach Commission Groups 1 and 5, and eleven community development district seats. The column alignment in the text layer of this PDF drifts between the name, party and address fields, so only the office headings and the two District 4 names, which sit on their own lines, are relied on here.
2. St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections, 2026 Qualified Candidates, St. Johns County, FL, final list of June 29, 2026 , Fifteen pages, linked from the office's 2026 News and Legal Notices page and retrieved Oct. 21, 2026. Source of the heading School Board Member - District 1 carrying two names, Kevin Allen and Beverly Ann Slough, of the heading School Board Member - District 3 carrying one name, Jennifer Collins, and of the heading School Board Member - District 4 carrying three names, Leif M. Jonassen III, Tammie McClafferty and Jillian Tozer. All six carry the party designation N/P. As with the general election list, the name, party and address columns drift in the text layer of this file, so only the office headings and the names, which sit on their own lines, are relied on here.
3. St. Johns County, official summary results, August 18, 2026 primary election , The Supervisor of Elections' own election night reporting summary for the Aug. 18, 2026 primary, linked as August 18, 2026 from the office's Election Results page and retrieved Oct. 21, 2026. Source of the School Board Member District 1 result, recorded as 9 of 9 participating precincts reporting, Kevin Allen (NON) 5,663 total votes at 52.22 percent and Beverly Slough (NON) 5,182 total votes at 47.78 percent, over a printed contest total of 10,845. Source of the School Board Member District 4 result, recorded as 9 of 9 participating precincts reporting, Leif M. Jonassen III (NON) 3,317 at 25.92 percent, Tammie McClafferty (NON) 5,906 at 46.15 percent and Jillian Tozer (NON) 3,574 at 27.93 percent, over a printed contest total of 12,797. Source of the statement that the REP County Commissioner District 2 and REP County Commissioner District 4 contests are each recorded as 55 of 55 participating precincts reporting, with printed contest totals of 59,312 and 59,213.
4. Florida Statutes s. 105.051, determination of election or retention to office , The section as served by the Legislature's own site and read Oct. 21, 2026, in Chapter 105, Nonpartisan Elections. Paragraph (1)(a) provides that the name of an unopposed candidate for the office of circuit judge, county court judge, or member of a school board shall not appear on any ballot, and that such candidate shall be deemed to have voted for himself or herself at the general election. Paragraph (1)(b) provides that where two or more candidates qualify, their names are placed on the ballot at the primary election; that if any candidate receives a majority of the votes cast for that office at the primary, the name of the candidate who receives such majority shall not appear on any other ballot unless a write-in candidate has qualified; and that if no candidate receives a majority, the names of the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes are placed on the general election ballot. Paragraph (1)(c) provides that the candidate who receives the highest number of votes cast for the office at the general election is elected, and that a tie is determined by lot.
5. Florida Statutes s. 1001.362, alternate procedure for single-member representation , The section as served by the Legislature's own site and read Oct. 21, 2026. Subsection (2) provides that school board members are elected under ss. 1001.36 and 1001.361 unless a proposition calling for single-member representation within the residence areas of the district is submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting on it. Paragraph (2)(a) provides that where the board has five members the proposition provides for one member resident in each of five residence areas, each elected only by the qualified electors who reside in the same residence area. Paragraph (2)(c) provides that all members are elected for 4-year terms, staggered so that alternately one more or one less than half of the members are elected every 2 years.
6. St. Johns County School District, Meeting Notices, retrieved Oct. 21, 2026 , The district's own forward calendar of noticed public meetings, retrieved Oct. 21, 2026. Source of the notice reading that there will be a School Board Reorganization Meeting on Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM, that the meeting will be held in the auditorium of the SJCSD Administrative Building at 40 Orange Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084 and via Webex, and that instructions to access the virtual meeting will be posted on the district website. Source of the notice reading that a School Board Leasing Corp. Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 17, 2026 immediately following the Reorganization Meeting, at the same address. Source of the regular meeting of Nov. 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM and the workshops noticed for Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, both at 9 AM.
7. St. Johns County School District, School Board, member roster, retrieved Oct. 21, 2026 , The district's own board page, retrieved Oct. 21, 2026. Under the heading BOARD MEMBERS it lists all five sitting members against their districts, in this order: Beverly Slough, District 1; Anthony E. Coleman Sr., District 2; Jennifer Collins, District 3; Kelly Barrera, District 4; Dr. Linda Thomson, District 5. Source of the sitting member in each of the three districts up for election this year, and of the sitting District 4 member being Kelly Barrera, whose name appears on neither the June 29 qualified candidate list nor the general election candidate list.
8. The St. Johns Tattler, Early voting opens Wednesday with a $100 million bond on the ballot, Oct. 20, 2026 , This paper's account of the early voting period and the county referendum, cited here for the Supervisor of Elections release of Oct. 14 setting eleven days of early voting from Oct. 21 through Oct. 31 at ten sites, all open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, for the sentence that a registered St. Johns County voter may vote at any of the ten locations, for the general election falling on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and for the Secretary of State's notice of the general election for this county listing School Board Districts 1, 3 and 4 and County Commissioner Districts 2 and 4 among the offices to be filled. That notice is archived in full with that story.