Oh. now they're reporting that there are some scams going on.
1. someone comes to your home with a laptop, letting you vote on the laptop so you don't have to vote on site anywhere.
2. people masquerading as County employees, offering to bring your ballot in.
Niiiiiiiiiice!
At 04:08 PM 10/21/2004, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
> >How much of this is going on?
> >
> >Doug
>
>Plenty. In our county, people had their absentee votes thrown out in the
>primary because their signatures (from back when they registered to vote,
>oh, 30
>years before) didn't match the signature on their ballot. Then there's a
>group that was running around registering students as Republicans only, or
>changing their registrations without telling them (they thought they were
>signing a
>petition about sex offender sentencing, or medical marijuana.) Our
>supervisor
>of elections--who shows flashes of conscientiousness--checked with 30 of the
>500 or so change of registrations she received in a clump and found that none
>of them had intended to change their registration to Republican. This is a
>statewide phenomenon on campuses, and may explain why Florida is the only
>state
>where Republican and Democratic new registrations are appearing in equal
>numbers. Then of course there's the Secretary of State Glenda Hood (and most
>elections supervisors) rejecting registrations when all that's missing is
>the box
>saying "I am a U.S. citizen." At the bottom of the form, you sign a
>statement
>saying the same thing. Not good enough. In Duval County (Jacksonville)
>people
>who had information missing from their registration forms were not told until
>(oops!) after the deadline had passed. These last two are the subject of a
>suit. Then there's the Florida Department of Law Enforcement 'visiting'
>elderly black voting activists in Orlando, and the attempt by Bush and
>Hood to foist
>on local elections officials a fake felon purge list (recently an email was
>released to the press which showed that Jeb Bush knew in advance it was
>riddled
>with what the press charitably called 'errors.' The scam only failed because
>AP and others sued to have the list made public, and the court agreed.
>
>I'm on a Fla. elections reform list--all activists who've been working on
>this since at least 2002--and someone described themselves sitting at home,
>staring at their absentee ballot, trying to figure out whether to submit
>that, do
>early voting, or what, to increase the chances their vote would count. A
>range
>of opinions was expressed, which, taken together spelled out
>"W E A R E F U C K E D."
>
>But the most significant story, I think, is the touchscreen machines with no
>paper ballot, and "proprietary" software, which half of Florida's voters will
>be using. Get ready for a bunch of complaints that election have become too
>litigious, and zero complaints that the Florida election officials have
>yet to
>be thrown in jail for obvious, repeated violations of the Voting Rights Act.
>
>Jenny Brown
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