Fishiness in Florida?

[Luftmensch067]

"How could it be?!?" I hear you gasp.

I just heard the idea on the radio that FL Democratic leaders are considering PRIVATE FINANCING of the Nelson-touted mail-in campaign, supported by Corzine and Rendell, both in HRC's column.

More at the Palm Beach post from yesterday:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2008/03/11/m1a_delegates_0311.html

And this re the FL rush to wrap this up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/us/politics/12delegates.html?ref=us

I've also heard that if FL and MI were to vote in June, they might be eligible for bonus delegates. This link is suggesting they would be unlikely to get them, but we all know the Clinton campaign would certainly push for them.
http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=868

[ginnyinWI]

1. I don't like the idea of a hasty mail-in voting.

It's not like Oregon, where voter signatures are on file, making it fraud proof. There's room for some Hanky-Panky with a temporary system.

[karynnj]

2. I agree - I also don't get why it takes months to set up an election

My town decided in December to have an election last month - a few weeks after the primaries to let people vote on a referendum that was not included last November as the all Republican town council blocked it even when people in the town demanded it and turned in petitions(TWICE) with about 1000 signatures requesting it. They rejected them on technicalities, but the court ruled they had to let people vote.

At any rate, we had an election less than 2 months after they lost the court case. Just as in all elections, we got the paper version of the sample ballots ahead of time, the books to sign were there, as were the machines in the polling places we always voted at.

This was only one town, but that actually made it harder. Here the state could use a standardized form that each town could add 2 labels to with the name/address and the polling place. Getting the machines, books etc is no harder, and potentially easier with the whole state voting. This sounds like people who don't want a solution.

(Side note - here is what 100% Republican government would look like. This LTTE is from a former Democratic town counsel person and he is making nothing up. http://www.recordernewspapers.com/articles/2008/03/12/randolph_reporter/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/doc47cef680020dc194731656.txt )

[Democrafty]

3. WTF?

This keeps getting weirder.

I'd like to think, that if I were a senator or some other type of representative of voters, I'd want them to be able to vote in as clean and transparently clean a manner as possible.

Even if I had endorsed a candidate. (She said, glaring in the general direction of Bill Nelson.)

[Luftmensch067]

4. Hee, hee!

Still giggling over your righteous branding of Le Nelson as "not chairman" over at WLJK.

Every day this goes on, I'm more and more convinced that, behind the scenes, there is a monumental battle being waged for the soul and future of the Democratic Party.

Our best hope is that more brave Democratic leaders, like John Kerry, will step up and make their voices heard loud and clear and on national television, speaking out for Obama and for real democracy vs. triangulation and winning at the cost of the people's rights.