Florida holds a special election on October 6 to fill the vacant State Senate seat, district 8. According to this news story, the only name on the ballot is John Thrasher, a Republican. The story also says the election is costing the taxpayers $700,000. Thrasher has three write-in opponents.

A large proportion of Florida legislative races are one-candidate elections, even though Florida has a very lenient law for ballot access for parties. The cause of so many one-candidate elections is that Florida filing fees are so large. A U.S. House filing fee is approximately $9,000, and the fee to run for the legislature is approximately $2,000.