State elections office in Tallahassee closes after worker tests positive for coronavirus

The state’s Division of Elections offices in Tallahassee’s R.A. Gray state office building have been closed after an employee there tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesman said.

Mark Ard, spokesman for Secretary of State Laurel Lee, said the coronavirus-infected employee was last in the office April 17. He did not identify the worker. Lee oversees the division, located in the Department of State.

The Gray Building, home of the Museum of Florida History, is on the corner of South Bronough and West Pensacola streets in downtown Tallahassee, behind the Florida Supreme Court. The museum has been closed to the public until further notice.

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