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Tuesday, Sept. 30, is Election Day in part of Palm Beach County.

Republican voters will choose a nominee for the Florida Legislature’s House District 90, a seat that has been vacant since the death of Rep. Joe Casello in July. Most of the district is in Delray Beach and Boynton Beach.

For Republican voters, this should be an easy call.

The candidates are Bill Reicherter, 56, a sign company owner who’s making a fourth bid for public office since 2020, and Maria Zack, 62, who operated a lobbying firm in Atlanta, Ga., for many years and earlier worked for the Brevard County Legislative Delegation in Florida.

Reicherter is a mainstream conservative who opposes many of the extreme positions of his party. For example, he considers the immigrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz to be an unnecessary “stunt.” He also opposes the elimination of mandatory childhood vaccines in Florida.

That makes Reicherter a much better fit for this Democrat-leaning district.

Zack is a conspiracy theorist who has suggested that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump in a conspiracy that involved a military satellite in Italy that switched votes from Trump to Joe Biden.

Whoever wins the Republican primary Tuesday will face an uphill fight in a district that reliably votes Democratic. The GOP winner will face Democrat Rob Long, a Delray Beach city commissioner, and independent candidate Karen Yeh in the general election on Dec. 9.

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