John A. Ferentinos, a Tea Party candidate for Florida’s State Senate, 26th district, was omitted from the November ballot because his campaign finance paperwork accidentally failed to list the name of bank which handles his campaign account.  However, then he noticed that his only opponent, Republican incumbent Senator Mike Haridopolos, had failed to complete one question on that same form, namely the question asking whether the campaign bank account is a primary account or a secondary account.  However, Haridopolos had not been removed from ballot.

Ferentinos had filed a lawsuit in federal court on August 23, but on September 3, the federal court ruled that Ferentinos should have filed in state court.  He is in the process of filing a new lawsuit in state court in Osceola.  But he runs the risk that the state court will say the lawsuit was filed too late.