The absentee and early votes were cast by 38 percent of Florida’s 12 million registered voters.

The Miami Herald partnered with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting for a comprehensive data analysis of absentee votes in the 2012 primary and general elections.

Listen to and watch Tracey Eaton’s entire interview in Spanish with Juan Pablo Roque, the former Cuban spy in the Brothers to the Rescue case.

Responses to the FCIR-StateImpact Florida investigation of K12 have come from around the state and across the country.

Ashley Lopez: A report released this week points to Rubio’s righthand man as a chief example of a growing ethics problem in Washington — the revolving door between lobbyists and the people they lobby on Capitol Hill.

Howard Goodman: The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Florida to halt its effort to purge noncitizens from the voter rolls.

Tristram Korten talked about his forthcoming story about the legal challenges Gov. Rick Scott’s new laws face.

Howard Goodman: Only 27 percent of fourth-graders passed this year’s writing test, representing a plunge of deep-sea proportions.

Howard Goodman: Gov. Rick Scott’s communications team slapped a fake headline on an image of a recent Miami Herald front page.

Trevor Aaronson: One in two deportees, Jacob Kushner found, were being detained without charges in deplorable and unsanitary jail cells.