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lovelyrita

(241 posts)
30. The tricks don't stop coming!
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 06:21 AM
Jun 2012

1. Changes to the voter ID laws.
2. Making early voting more difficult by opening the polls for less hours.
3. Imposing fines and ridiculous rules about when the paperwork must be turned in and who is responsible for it. This forced many third party groups who register voters to stop doing so.
4. Purging voters from the voter rolls.
5. Waiting until the last moment possible to have the maps from the redistricting available. This is making it difficult to attract candidates and imposing a burden on the county Supervisor of Elections.

There are so many problems down here, I am glad that the national media seems to have picked up on some of it. For those of us on the ground in Florida, this entire year has been a struggle against these terrible burdens to democracy.

Encouraging. MinneapolisMatt May 2012 #1
Your move, DOJ. rocktivity May 2012 #2
Brava! JustAnotherGen May 2012 #3
Wow!! Thanks. lamp_shade May 2012 #4
K and R nt. thanks for posting Stuart G May 2012 #5
Mutiny! C'mon Florida! MUTINY!!! nt daaron May 2012 #6
People need to start suing cindyperry2010 May 2012 #7
Glad, and thankfully not surprised. Tommy_Carcetti May 2012 #8
One county out of many, but a start. L. Coyote May 2012 #9
I Believe The Scrub DallasNE May 2012 #17
Hoooo-bloody-rah! malthaussen May 2012 #10
I would assume that she is also the one who would take the names off the list. n/t RDANGELO May 2012 #11
Only one county out of HOW many?? kestrel91316 May 2012 #12
Good now maybe others will have the courage to follow suit. jwirr May 2012 #13
Yes! K and R goclark May 2012 #14
K&R flamingdem May 2012 #15
Wrong Solution To Wrong Problem Using The Wrong Methodology DallasNE May 2012 #16
"we know" translated DonCoquixote May 2012 #21
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2012 #18
Where the hell is Eric Holder on this? BattyDem May 2012 #19
I wrote to the white house and also signed a petition for Eric Holder crunch60 May 2012 #26
Repeat this in every county DonCoquixote May 2012 #20
Sandford, where the Trayvon Martin shooting happened is in Seminole County, not Orange. lovelyrita May 2012 #27
OK, I stand corrected, but DonCoquixote Jun 2012 #29
The tricks don't stop coming! lovelyrita Jun 2012 #30
More like this--on to the other swing states librechik May 2012 #22
Ms. Bucher is one hell of a gutsy lady. Vidar May 2012 #23
This is great news.. virgdem May 2012 #24
It looks like Susan Bucher got the ball rolling! K&R DianaForRussFeingold May 2012 #25
Sue Bucher is Da Bomb SoFlaJet May 2012 #28
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