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10/5/26 - Meet Wendy Sartory Link and David Silvers

Writer: Indivisible Boca Raton
Indivisible Boca Raton
Sep 21
6 min read

Updated: Sep 28


Political event poster for Indivisible Boca Raton featuring Wendy Sartory Link and David Silvers, with date and venue details.


Join Indivisible Boca Raton to hear directly from PBC Supervisor Of Elections, Wendy Sartory Link.



When: Monday October 5, 2026.


With the November 3 midterms about five weeks away, many Palm Beach County voters are asking questions they never used to think twice about. Will this election be run fairly? Will a mailed ballot arrive on time and actually be counted? Can anyone in Washington reach into our local process and change the outcome? These worries are understandable, and they deserve real answers from someone who knows how our elections work from the inside.


Who Is Wendy Sartory Link?

Wendy has run elections in Palm Beach County for more than seven years. She was first appointed in 2019, elected in 2020, and re-elected in 2024, and she leads one of the largest and most complex election jurisdictions in Florida. Before taking the job, she was a commercial real estate and corporate lawyer, and today her office serves nearly one million registered voters. She also serves as the current President of the Florida Supervisors of Elections Association, the group that represents the Supervisors of Elections from all 67 counties in the state. That dual role puts her in a rare position to speak both to what is happening here at home and to how election officials across Florida are preparing for November.


In the video above, Link walks through a few of the overlapping safeguards already in place. Before any ballots are tabulated, her office runs a public logic and accuracy test to confirm the equipment reads ballots correctly. Poll workers complete anywhere from three or four hours to as many as eight or nine hours of training depending on their role, and the staff who receive vote-by-mail ballots are trained in signature verification.


Why Voters Are Worried

Much of the current anxiety traces back to actions coming out of Washington. In August, the Center for American Progress, a Washington policy think tank, published a report that details 15 specific tactics, including installing election deniers in key government positions, gutting key agencies and election security programs, sharply curtailing voting by mail, and preparing to purge voters by weaponizing federal databases and demanding personal voter information. The organization has also raised alarms that the administration may be planning to send ICE agents or troops into polling places.


Some of these fears have already been tested in court. On September 14, the Supreme Court rejected a request by the Trump administration to lift a judicial block on a controversial U.S. Postal Service rule that critics feared would make it more difficult to vote by mail. Under that plan, states would have had to turn over lists of voters’ names and addresses and have certain specific barcodes on ballot envelopes in order to have them delivered. As a result of the ruling, the Postal Service is expected to continue delivering ballots as usual. Court victories alone won’t settle every concern, which is exactly why hearing from the official responsible for our county’s elections matters.


What You Will Hear About

Link will address the questions we hear most often from our members and neighbors, including:


  • Is my voter registration safe? How does PBC protect election integrity?

  • Can I trust voting by mail?

  • How are local election officials handling pressure from Washington?

  • What are the rules about ICE and other law enforcement near polling places?

  • What happens after the votes are counted, and how are results made official?


Key Dates to Remember

Mark your calendar now, because the first deadline arrives the same day as our event. Monday, October 5 is the last day to register to vote or update your party affiliation for the November election, so if you have any doubt about your status, check it at votepalmbeach.gov before you come. The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 22. Early voting runs from Monday, October 19 through Sunday, November 1, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.


Join Us

Wendy Sartory Link will meet with voters and answer questions on election integrity and more on Monday, October 5, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the Dr. Andre Fladell Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road in Delray Beach. We will also be joined by special guest speaker State Representative David Silvers, the Democratic candidate for Florida Senate District 26. The event is free and open to the public. Bring your questions, bring your neighbors, and come hear directly from the person responsible for making sure every vote in Palm Beach County is counted.




Who Is David Silvers?

David Silvers spent eight years in the Florida House building a record that put Palm Beach County first. The Florida Housing Coalition named him its Housing Champion in 2020, and county commissioners honored him in 2024 for outstanding legislative service. He also serves as an Ambassador for Project Lifesaver International, helping first responders locate seniors with cognitive conditions who wander, real peace of mind for families in this county.

Now he is running for Florida Senate District 26, a seat term-limited Democrat Lori Berman is leaving open. Neither Silvers nor his opponent currently holds this seat, which means the outcome rests entirely on who turns out in November. Standing against him is Rick Roth, a former Republican state representative whose own words on camera this month make the stakes plain.


In a recent campaign interview, Roth was asked about Trump’s alleged interest in the race. Rather than address the question directly, he turned it into an opportunity to praise Trump personally and at length. “Donald Trump is really fighting for better trade agreements. He’s fighting for lower oil prices,” Roth said. “Donald Trump is doing a great job for it, too.”


Roth Praises Trump While Farmers Pay the Bill

Roth went further in the same interview, praising Trump’s judgment in strikingly personal terms. “What I love about Donald Trump, he’s a businessman. Everybody’s playing checkers. He’s playing chess,” Roth said, before adding, “He’s smarter than I am, so I think he thinks he knows what he’s going to do.”


The chess Roth is describing includes the war with Iran, which he called “long term oil policy.” The results of that policy are already showing up in his own district. American farmers spent an estimated $1.4 billion more on diesel during the 2026 planting season than the year before, and Florida led every state in the nation in the size of that increase, with diesel costs up 90.6 percent. Local reporting confirms family farms in this state are already being squeezed by rising fuel and fertilizer costs tied directly to the conflict Roth is defending. District 26 is agricultural land. These are his constituents.


Roth’s answer to the climate side of that equation was just as direct. “Climate change is dead in America now,” he said.

To see Roth’s obsequious remarks in their entirety, click here to watch the full interview.


A Record Worth Knowing

Roth’s voting history adds context to where he stands. In 2022, he voted for a fifteen week abortion ban that included no exceptions for rape, incest, or human trafficking survivors, a vote that remains on his record heading into this race.


Roth also describes himself as a farmer, and in that same interview he credited Trump’s trade and energy policies with helping people like him. Diesel and fertilizer costs, the two largest line items in a farming budget, have hit record highs this year, the same costs Roth’s own farm depends on to operate.



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