How come individual commissioners are only voted in by citizens that live within their individual commissioners' districts? How come the entire county can't vote for every district commissioner, like it is done in Santa Rosa County (and all the other counties in America)?
As was discussed in the meeting, this is because of a 1970's era lawsuit that was successful and that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
This screenshot of an article from the 1984 Pensacola Journal lays out the chronology of how this practice came to be locally...Interesting......
