New York USA — At least three Jamaicans are among candidates who will face the electorate in tomorrow’s (Tuesday) primary elections in Florida, United States.

Two of the three, Dr Karen Green in the State’s 7th Congressional District and Dale Holness in the 20th, are seeking seats in the US Congress while the third candidate, Tamar Hamilton is seeking to become a judge of the Circuit Court for Broward county.

Democrat Holness will be making his second bid to secure a seat in Congress. He is again doing battle with fellow Democrat, US representative Chefilus McCormick to whom he lost a close primary race last year.

Their campaigns have grown contentious as the polls draw close. Last month McCormick filed a defamation lawsuit against Holness, accusing him of making maliciously false statements about her in fund-raising text messages and mail.

Holness has hit back with his own accusation about lies he claims are being spread about him by McCormick’s campaign.

State representative Anika Omphroy is also contesting Tuesday’s primary on the Democratic ticket.

The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face off against Republican Drew Montez who is running unopposed in a seat which is considered to be a safe Democratic district.

In the seventh congressional district, meantime, 56-year-old Dr Karen Green, considered by some to be the front-runner, will be up against three other candidates for the Democratic party nomination there.

Green, who migrated from Jamaica in 1990, is the vice chair of Florida’s Democratic party. She previously worked as director of the Caribbean Coalition for both the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns.

She recently dissolved her political consulting firm, Bluefield Consulting LLC, in order to avoid any conflict of interest, according to published reports and sources.

Dr Green has listed education, women’s health, immigrant rights, universal health care and combating climate change among her top priorities if she wins and goes on to be elected in the November general election.

Published reports show that she has raised more money than any of the other three Democratic candidates in the race.

Eight candidates are listed among the Republicans seeking their party’s nomination in the contest.

In Broward County, meanwhile, attorney Tamar Hamilton is seeking to secure a seat on the Bench of the Broward County Circuit Court. She holds a doctorate from the St Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens, Florida, among other academic achievements.

Hamilton, who is founder and head of her law firm Tamar N Hamilton PA, is a member of the Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. She is also qualified to practise law in Jamaica and is a member of the General Council of Jamaica, according to her website.