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REP Survey: Responded

Marci Woodward

PBC Commission — District 4
Incumbent
★★★☆☆
110 / 165 points
Integrity & Legal Record
Professional & Business Transparency
Policy & Platform Consistency
Community Engagement & Character
Campaign Transparency
Issue-Based Positions

Incumbent (Vice Mayor, elected 2022)

Last updated: 2026-08-21

Every candidate is researched identically across six categories using only public records and candidate-submitted information. No candidate is endorsed. Read the full methodology.

Integrity & Legal Record 23 / 25

Criminal History

No case records of any kind — criminal, civil, or otherwise — were found under the exact name "Woodward, Marci" in the PBC Clerk of Courts case index. A nationwide search (news search without geographic restriction, for terms "arrested," "convicted," "sentenced," "indicted") surfaced multiple unrelated individuals named Woodward/Woodard in other states (Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas) — none matching the first name "Marci" or connected to this candidate.

Sources:
  • PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView (appsgp.mypalmbeachclerk.com) — exact name search, Last: Woodward, First: Marci, Court Type: ALL — 2026-07-20 — 0 results
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Marci Woodward" arrested OR convicted OR sentenced OR indicted -Florida — 2026-07-20 — no matches to this candidate
  • FDLE Search — attempted; interactive form, not queryable via automated fetch — 2026-07-20

Civil Court History

No civil case records found under "Woodward, Marci" in the PBC Clerk of Courts index (same zero-result search as above covered all case types).

Sources:
  • PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView — search Woodward/Marci, all court types — 2026-07-20 — 0 results

Ethics Violations

No ethics complaints naming Marci Woodward were found via news search or the PBC Commission on Ethics complaint archive (not independently name-searchable from its landing page).

Sources:
  • Google/news search: "Marci Woodward" ethics complaint — no relevant results — 2026-07-20
  • Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics — https://palmbeachcountyethics.com/complaints.htm — 2026-07-20

Campaign Finance Violations

No Florida Elections Commission violation records found. Her campaign finance activity is publicly tracked (e.g., Transparency USA payee listing) with no indication of enforcement action.

Sources:
  • Florida Elections Commission — https://www.fec.state.fl.us/FECWebFi.nsf/pages/Violations — 2026-07-20 (no name-search capability from landing page)
  • Transparency USA — https://www.transparencyusa.org/fl/payee/3257073/ — 2026-07-20

Residency Confirmed

Woodward is widely reported in local press as a "20-year Boca Raton resident" and was elected to represent District 4 in November 2022, which requires district residency verified at candidate qualifying. However, no real property record could be found under the candidate's name in any variant tried, nor under her identified spouse's name: - "Woodward, Marci" — no match (direct search + autocomplete) - "Woodward, Marcia" — no match (a same-named Facebook profile "Marcia Smoak Woodward" appears to be an unrelated person) - Spouse "Michael Woodward" (per news bio, married to "her high school sweetheart, Michael") — the only PBC property record under "Woodward, Michael" is a trust jointly held with a "Kathleen," which does not match; this is evidently a different, unrelated Michael Woodward. This does not indicate wrongdoing — the couple may rent, hold title through an LLC/trust with a different registered name, or the property may be titled under a name/spelling not yet tried — but residency could not be independently corroborated via property records the way it was for other Tier 1 candidates in this cycle.

Sources:
  • WPTV — https://www.wptv.com/political/elections-local/palm-beach-county-commissioners-11-8-22 — 2026-07-20
  • PBC Property Appraiser (PAPA) Advanced Search — https://pbcpao.gov/AdvSearch/AdvanceSearch — owner name searches "Woodward Marci," "Woodward Marcia," "Woodward Michael" — 2026-07-20 — no matching entry found
  • Google/news search: "Marci Woodward" husband spouse married Boca Raton commissioner — identified spouse as "Michael" — 2026-07-20
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — No PAPA property record found under the candidate's name (in two variants) or her spouse's first name. Residency relies on news reporting and successful candidate qualification rather than an independent property record. Recommend manual follow-up (e.g., PBC Supervisor of Elections candidate oath/qualifying paperwork, or a utility/voter registration record) before publication.
  • ⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: No PBC Property Appraiser record found under "Woodward, Marci" — residency is not independently corroborated by a property record (unlike Whitfield and Johnson in the same Tier 1 batch, both of whom had confirmable homestead records). This is not evidence of any problem, just an open verification gap worth a manual check (possible name variant, spousal title, renter status).
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — the CIVICS Disclosure Survey PDF answers have not yet been extracted/indexed per-candidate.

Professional & Business Transparency 17 / 25

Business Ownership

`[NOT FOUND — no pre-commissioner occupation, career, or business affiliation is documented in any available source, including her own official PBC County Commission biography, her campaign website, and third-party candidate-tracking sites (one of which explicitly notes "no professional experience on file") — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Marci Woodward" Boca Raton occupation career business — 2026-08-21]`. This is an unusually complete absence of professional background information even by this project's standards; it may reflect a private career, a long-standing homemaker/community-volunteer role, or simply thin public documentation, but cannot be characterized further given available sources. `[Sunbiz primary-source confirmation NOT COMPLETED — search.sunbiz.org unresponsive this session]`.

Sources:
  • Palm Beach County official biography (discover.pbc.gov) — 2026-08-21 — no career/occupation information
  • VoteSmart candidate biography — 2026-08-21 — "no professional experience on file"
  • Campaign website (marciwoodward.com) — 2026-08-21 — no career/occupation information
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — No professional/occupational background is documented anywhere for this incumbent county commissioner, which is unusual; combined with the pre-existing Category 1 residency-verification gap (no PBC property record found under her name), this candidate's overall public-record transparency is notably thin. Recommend operator follow-up (e.g., a direct records request or candidate questionnaire) if greater certainty is desired.

Financial Conflicts of Interest

`[NOT FOUND — no occupation or business is documented, so no conflict pathway could be assessed — 2026-08-21]`. No news reporting alleges any financial conflict during her County Commission tenure.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Marci Woodward" conflict of interest — 2026-08-21 — no matches
⚠️ Same transparency caveat as Business Ownership above.

Bankruptcy History

`[NOT FOUND]`. No personal or business bankruptcy filings located.

Sources:
  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — search "Marci Woodward" — 2026-08-21 — 0 results

Tax Liens

`[NOT FOUND]`. No federal or state tax lien records located. Per this project's standing methodology, tax liens are inconsistently indexed online, so this absence of results is not presented as a confirmed clean record.

Sources:
  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — same search as above — 2026-08-21 — 0 results

Board Memberships

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Marci Woodward" board member nonprofit director — 2026-08-21]`. No outside board membership identified beyond her elected City of Boca Raton and County Commission roles.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches
  • ⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: No professional/occupational background is documented anywhere for this sitting county commissioner — not in her official government bio, campaign site, or third-party trackers (one explicitly lists "no professional experience on file"). Combined with the pre-existing Category 1 residency-verification gap, this candidate's overall public transparency is notably thin for an incumbent. Recommend a direct follow-up (candidate questionnaire, public-records request, or direct outreach) if greater certainty is desired.
  • ⚠️ TOOLING BLOCK: Sunbiz unresponsive this session (2 attempts).
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — pending CIVICS Disclosure Survey PDF extraction.

Policy & Platform Consistency 16 / 20

Voting Record

Woodward is an incumbent (County Commission District 4 since 2022; also serves as Boca Raton Vice Mayor). Her platform centers on homeownership attainability, infrastructure, and transportation. A significant, well-documented instance: in 2025, campaign-finance records show she received $14,500 from donors with direct or indirect ties to Project Tango, a proposed 200-acre AI data center campus in Palm Beach County. Despite these contributions, when the Commission voted on the project in July 2026, Woodward voted with the 5-1 majority to deny Project Tango, stating the development wasn't "compatible" with the county's comprehensive plan, questioning why it needed an "unprecedented list of customized restrictions," and noting "these uses are not compatible." (District 6 Commissioner Sara Baxter, who received $37,000 from Project Tango-linked donors, recused herself from the vote — see her own file.) This is a notable, favorable data point: her vote ran contrary to the financial interests of donors who had contributed to her campaign.

Sources:
  • The Acreage Advocate (Substack) — "Marci Woodward received $14K from donors linked to the Project Tango data center" — 2026-08-21
  • WLRN — "'Not compatible': Palm Beach County rejects controversial Project Tango AI data center" — 2026-08-21
  • Boca Post — "Palm Beach County Commissioners Deny Project Tango AI Data Center Expansion Near Arden" — 2026-08-21
✅ FAVORABLE CROSS-REFERENCE — Directly relevant to the Category 2 financial-conflicts assessment: despite donor contributions tied to Project Tango, she voted to deny the project, indicating the contributions did not determine her vote in this instance.

Position Consistency

`[No documented position shifts were identified across her tenure — searched: nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21]`. Her public stance against Project Tango is consistent with her stated platform emphasis on responsible development/infrastructure planning.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no adverse matches

Flip-Flops

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Marci Woodward" flip-flop reversed position controversy — 2026-08-21]`. No documented policy reversal was identified.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches

Endorsements

`[Endorsements received — NOT FOUND — 2026-08-21]`. `[Endorsements given — NOT FOUND — 2026-08-21]`. She faces Democrat Curtis Calabrese in the November general election; Calabrese has publicly raised concerns about "special interests" in the race, referring to campaign-finance patterns like the Project Tango contributions documented above.

Sources:
  • The Acreage Advocate (Substack) — as above — 2026-08-21
  • ✅ FAVORABLE FINDING: Despite $14,500 in campaign contributions from donors linked to Project Tango, Woodward voted to deny the project — a concrete, sourced data point mitigating the financial-conflict concern implicit in the Category 2 professional-background transparency gap.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — pending CIVICS Disclosure Survey PDF extraction.

Community Engagement & Character 13 / 25

Community Involvement

Woodward and her husband Michael were documented participating in Boca Helping Hands' Thanksgiving food distribution effort, which fed thousands of local families — a specific, sourced instance of hands-on community involvement, though the extent of her ongoing (vs. one-time/photo-op) involvement with the organization was not further established.

Sources:
  • Boca Raton Tribune — "Boca Helping Hands Fed Thousands of Families for Thanksgiving" (photo/caption identifying PBC Commissioner Marci Woodward, Michael Woodward) — 2026-08-24

Veteran / First Responder Service

`[NOT FOUND]`. No veteran or first-responder service identified.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Faith-Based Involvement (scored on character consistency)

`[NOT FOUND]`. No personal faith-community affiliation identified. Per methodology, absence is not scored negatively.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Debates / Town Halls

`[NOT FOUND]`. No specific debate or town hall record located this session, despite this being an actively contested race (per Category 3, a March 2026 poll showed a narrow Calabrese lead).

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Social Media Presence & Consistency

Maintains active Facebook and LinkedIn presence as both "Vice Mayor Marci Woodward" and "Commissioner Marci Woodward," including a regular "From the Desk of Commissioner Marci Woodward" community newsletter column. No dedicated X/Twitter account was located. No controversial or inconsistent posts identified.

Sources:
  • Facebook — "Vice Mayor Marci Woodward" — 2026-08-24
  • Boca View Pointe (Seabreeze Communications) — "From The Desk Of Commissioner Marci Woodward" — 2026-08-24
  • Consistent with the Category 1/2 transparency gap already documented for this incumbent, her Category 4 public record is also comparatively thin, apart from the Boca Helping Hands finding.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — pending CIVICS Disclosure Survey PDF extraction.

Campaign Transparency 15 / 25

Top Donors / Donor Composition

Woodward raised $232,293 total per Supervisor of Elections filings. ⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE: as documented in Category 3, $14,500 of this total came from donors with direct or indirect ties to Project Tango, a proposed data-center development she ultimately voted against.

Sources:
  • Cross-referenced from Category 3 (The Acreage Advocate) — 2026-08-26
None beyond the existing Category 3 cross-reference.

PAC / LLC / Funneling Structures

`[Specific PAC contributions NOT independently itemized this session — searched: Palm Beach County campaign finance records — 2026-08-26]`. No LLC, dark-money, or foreign-adjacent funding identified beyond the already-documented Project Tango donor cluster.

Sources:
  • Palm Beach County VoterFocus campaign finance database — 2026-08-26

Advertising Spend

`[Specific ad-spend line items NOT independently itemized — searched: Palm Beach County campaign finance records — 2026-08-26]`. Her ~$232K budget is substantial and proportionate for a competitive county commission race.

Sources:
  • Palm Beach County VoterFocus campaign finance database — 2026-08-26

Grassroots Engagement

`[No documented door-knocking, phone-banking, or in-person voter-contact ground game located — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Marci Woodward" District 4 campaign volunteer 2026 — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Donations to Political Figures

`[NOT FOUND — searched: Palm Beach County campaign finance records, nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches
  • This category's Donor Composition score reflects the Project Tango donor cluster already documented in Category 3, mitigated by her vote against the project.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Issue-Based Positions 26 / 40

2A Rights Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — outside county-commission jurisdiction — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Pro-Life / Pro-Family Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — outside county-commission jurisdiction — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Fiscal Conservatism Score

Lists "property tax relief" among her 2026 priorities.

Sources:
  • sfregionalcouncil.org — Commissioner Marci Woodward bio — 2026-08-26

Parental Rights Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — outside county-commission jurisdiction — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Election Integrity Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — outside county-commission jurisdiction — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Housing / Insurance Position

Lists "workforce housing affordability" among her priorities, without a specific mechanism (deregulation, subsidy, or otherwise) identified this session.

Sources:
  • sfregionalcouncil.org — as above — 2026-08-26

Education / School Choice Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — outside county-commission jurisdiction (schools are governed by the separate School Board) — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Environment / Everglades Position

Prioritizes "preserving open spaces and natural preserves" and "environmentally sensitive and agricultural lands, balancing progress with conservation" — a stated conservation position balanced with growth, consistent with the existing Cat3 favorable Project Tango data-center-denial vote.

Sources:
  • discover.pbc.gov — District 4 biography — 2026-08-26
⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE — consistent with the existing Cat3 favorable Project Tango vote finding.
  • ⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE: the Environment/Everglades score is consistent with, and reinforced by, the existing Cat3 favorable Project Tango data-center-denial vote finding.
  • Five of eight metrics fall outside county-commission jurisdiction and were scored neutral per protocol.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

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