Most Orange County school board incumbents are taking strong leads this year, according to vote tallies released by the county registrar Friday evening. But in some districts, including the Fullerton School District,

Blount's victory concluded what the party previously described on Twitter as “the Duval GOP’s six-year strategy to remake the Duval County School Board. This makes Jacksonville, Florida one of the few major cities in America with a truly conservative school board.”

Together, the districts serve nearly 13,000 students in total across the county. School board members do not oversee the day-to-day operations of a school corporation, but rather provide oversight. They are also responsible for hiring the superintendent, approving the budget, and creating policies for staff and students.

Orange County’s elections office, where ballots were being counted, received a bomb threat Friday afternoon, the registrar said. Staff and members of the public who were watching ballots being tallied were evacuated from the Santa Ana building at about 6:45 p.