The Florida State House website still shows James Grant as the Representative for District 64, but it's not true.

Currently, the District 64 seat is empty, and that's the way it will stay until lawmakers return to session in Tallahassee next year.

In fact, for most of the session, there will be no House representative for residents who live in the district, which includes Oldsmar, Safety Harbor, Carrollwood, Citrus Park and Westchase. It's quite puzzling for those who live there.

"The surrounding areas, do they have representatives?" asked resident Janet Skeens. "How come this area does not?"

Republicans Grant and Miriam Steinberg have been fighting over whether a write-in candidate who doesn't live in the district should be on the ballot. After a long drawn out court battle, a judge decided the write-in candidate can stay, but votes from the November election were thrown out.

The special primary for District 64 is slated for Feb. 10. The winner will go on to face that disputed write-in candidate during a special election April 21.

The special election won't happen before session reconvenes. In fact, ultimately, the winner won't have much time in Tallahassee at all.

"They will go up there with basically a week to go and not having participated in any committee hearings or votes or anything else," said Bay News 9's Republican Analyst Chris Ingram.

And although most votes happen at the end of the legislative session, Ingram says it's the residents who will lose.

"These people in this District 64 don't have a voice in Tallahassee," he said. "If they have an issue with the state that they want to go to their state representative, they want to seek remedy from, they don't have one, they'll have to go to their state senator."

Those residents we talked with in the district are disappointed.

"Well, it's always a bad thing to be unrepresented," said voter Ronnie James.

"I don't think it's right," said resident Janet Skeens. "I think that we should have representation."

Others just chalk it up to politics at its finest.

"Given the way the legislature is now, I think the fewer people there, the way they are and what they're going to do, the better off we all are," said resident Beth Johnson.

The special election comes with a hefty price tag. Experts say the special election to vote for a state representative could cost taxpayers more than $500,000.