How to read a card · 2026 Florida cycle · Not an official ballot
How to read a JesusVoter card
If you pulled up a name on this site and thought, “I see three bars and a letter — now what?” that’s this page. How we score is the rulebook. This is the card in your hand. You opened the guide, typed a ZIP or a name, and the bars showed up. We’ll walk through them the way we’d walk through them after church.
We’re the neighbors who did the homework — see About — not the Supervisor of Elections. Scores are values judgments from public sources. They always add the same way: 45 Christian + 35 Constitution + 20 GOP = 100. Badges sit next to the bars. They don’t add a second hundred.
The three bars, in the order we mean
Christian (45) is first on purpose. The heaviest single signal is public faith in Jesus — campaign language, church-centered events, Scripture used as more than a slogan. We also score pro-life positions, religious liberty, parental rights, marriage and family, and opposition to gender ideology in schools and sports. A long conservative voting record without a Christ-named public witness can still score well. It will not outrun someone who both votes and campaigns on those items. How they campaign sits here too, slightly: the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome (2 Timothy 2:24–25 ESV). Destroying arguments against the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV) is not a license to be mean. Opened meanness is a −1 to −3 dock, not a zero.
Constitution (35) is limited government, borders, original meaning, free enterprise, fiscal restraint, and health freedom. Older cards labeled this bar “paleo.” The idea did not change. A real MAHA or medical-freedom record can raise this number. A “healthy kids” slogan cannot.
GOP (20) is third. Republican registration, platform, institutional alignment, conservative party-line records. We’re honest about party. We don’t worship it. An outsider Republican can run high on Christian and Constitution and sit at 15 GOP. A Democrat isn’t scored “zero Christian by default” — the GOP column is simply small when the public record says so. On a nonpartisan card the GOP number is alignment, not a party column. Messina is 19 GOP on an NPA mayor line because the office cannot print an R.
The letter is the 100-point total
Add the three bars. That sum is the letter. It is not a gold star for character, and it is not a report on how hard we looked.
- A — 90 to 100
- B — 80 to 89
- C — 70 to 79
- D — 60 to 69
- F — 59 and under
Sort by the numbers (or the letter — they now match). Orange School Board District 3 is the kitchen-table check: Ilia Adorno 30 / 26 / 14 (70, a C) sits above Diana Moore 24 / 20 / 10 (54, an F) and Susanne Marie Pena 20 / 14 / 6 (40, an F). Details: school boards.
Badges are a second pass
Trump, DeSantis, Musk, and MAHA are callouts. They let you filter. They do not add 5 or 10 phantom points. Four badges did not turn Fishback’s 91 into 110. Two badges did not close Donalds’s Christian gap with Fishback or Rodriguez. The one related effect is that a real MAHA record can also raise Constitution. The 🥗 badge itself is still a badge. Longer rules: callout badges explained.
ZIP is the door. The sample ballot is the list.
Our ZIP box estimates county and shows statewide races plus the local fields we researched. Your legal ballot is a precinct style built from your full residential address. Two houses in 32801 can sit in different school-board districts. Write down the offices and names on the official PDF, then search those names — not the entire county dump. Walkthrough: how to read a Florida sample ballot. Civic rules: how to vote and closed primary.
If a name is on the PDF and missing or F-watermarked in our guide, the PDF still governs. If a name is in our guide and missing from the PDF, your precinct does not vote that district. Email a public source to hello@jesusvoter.com if you want us to look. A private story does not replace a page we can open.
What to do with a D or an F
A D is 60 to 69. You can use the numbers as a directional read. Lafayette School Board District 3 sits lower than that: Mary Anne McCray 4 / 4 / 0 and Mark Beach 4 / 4 / 0. Empty Jesus trail. The old 13s were a courtesy floor. They’re gone.
If the card says Scores coming soon, that is unfinished — not an F. Don’t mentally convert a blank card to a 20 / 18 / 10 “mid-band.” Vote the official style; treat our hole as a hole. We’d rather publish a watermark than a polished fake.
Worked example: Messina versus Murphy
Orange County mayor, nonpartisan. Unofficial: nobody at 50 percent; Russell and Messina advance.
Chris Messina 38 / 32 / 19 B. Explicit Christian county-executive campaign, anti-mandate Constitution record, Republican-aligned vehicle on a forced-NPA line. Badges: Trump, DeSantis, Musk, MAHA. Stephanie Murphy 4 / 3 / 0 F. Former Democratic U.S. representative from FL-7. No Jesus comments; no Pride endorsement. GOP 0.
Messina 89 (a B), Murphy 7 (an F). That gap is not a rounding error. Uribe 4 / 4 / 0 F and Russell 0 / 1 / 0 F (Rainbow Democrats counts against) sit near zero. Full essay: Orange County mayor 2026.
Worked example: Fishback versus Donalds
Open governor’s seat. James Fishback 41 / 35 / 15 A. Highest Christian and Constitution bars in the Republican field we researched; GOP 15 because the campaign is an outsider vehicle. Byron Donalds 36 / 29 / 20 B. Formal Trump endorsement. GOP 20. Christian 36 — Protestant, pro-life House record, faith-and-family themes — but the campaign brand is MAGA / Trump more than continuous Christ-first messaging.
Fishback 91, Donalds 85. The 41 already includes a −3 conduct dock for how he campaigned (2 Timothy 2:24–25; 2 Corinthians 10:5). If your personal filter is “formal Trump endorsement plus max GOP,” Donalds outranks Fishback for you even though our total does not. That’s why badges are separate. If your filter is “highest Jesus-named intensity,” Fishback sits above Donalds and even above Rodriguez’s 38 Christian with no badges. Full field: Florida governor 2026 values. Tuesday nominated; November 3 is the remaining pair. Unofficial: Donalds and Jolly.
Worked example: Moody versus Vindman
Special U.S. Senate. Ashley B. Moody 42 / 28 / 20 A (90). High numbers on a public AG record. Alex Vindman 4 / 3 / 0 F (7). A Democratic Senate candidate whose public brand is national security and opposition to Trump. An F here is the total, not “almost conservative.”
Keep two mistakes apart here. Don’t toss Moody’s 42 because you wanted a longer memo. Don’t promote Vindman’s 7 into a mid-30s Christian score because the look was real. The other four names we scored in that field — Rivera 30 / 21 / 14 D, Perry 27 / 23 / 14 D, Gleason 26 / 22 / 15 D, Nixon 6 / 4 / 0 F — live on the home guide’s Senate special cards. Unofficial: Moody and Nixon are the November pair. A stamp is not a score.
A one-pass habit
If you want a simple pass at the kitchen table:
1. Official PDF by full address. 2. Names on that PDF only. 3. Sort those names by Christian, then Constitution, then GOP. 4. Read the letter so you know how deep the trail was. 5. Use badges as a filter, not as math. 6. For amendments, there is no 45 / 35 / 20 card. Read the official summaries: Florida’s 2026 amendments.
Florida is the only live state. Other states are text, not links. County landings: /counties. More essays live on the home guide list.