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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 05:14 PM Nov 2012

OUTSIDE: "we want to vote! Miami-Dade shuts down voting-Will reopen for voters by 5pm

Just going to repost the tweets about the mess that is currently going on down there. They can describe it better than I ever could. Absolutely a travesty what is happening right now. After the squiggly ..

Marc Caputo ?@MarcACaputo
Miami-Dade voting P.R. fiasco: The county shuts down its limited early vote offer, citing too few workers & 1 printer ht @msanchezMIA

Kathleen McGrory ?@kmcgrory
People staying in line, even though in-person absentee voting has been suspended for the day. Crowd chanting "let us vote!" @MiamiHerald

Kathleen McGrory ?@kmcgrory
They just locked the doors at the Miami-Dade Elections Department. Nobody allowed in. @PatriciaMazzei @MiamiHerald

Kathleen McGrory ?@kmcgrory
County elections office will no longer be providing absentee ballots today. People shouting. @PatriciaMazzei @MiamiHerald

Kathleen McGrory ?@kmcgrory
Miami-Dade elections officials say they don't have the capacity to accommodate anyone else. @PatriciaMazzei @MiamiHerald

Marc Caputo ?@MarcACaputo
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is in hiding after his election office over-promised extra early voting and under-delivered.

Kathleen McGrory ?@kmcgrory
Cars being towed from the parking lot across the street from Miami-Dade elections. "This is intimidation!" one woman yells. @MiamiHerald

Melissa Sanchez ?@msanchezMIA
"we want to vote! We want to vote!" people scream outside locked doors #miamivotingfiasco2012

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/04/1155451/-Miami-Dade-shuts-down-voting

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OUTSIDE: "we want to vote! Miami-Dade shuts down voting-Will reopen for voters by 5pm (Original Post) kpete Nov 2012 OP
Jesus wept. barnabas63 Nov 2012 #1
People are going to have to start voting BumRushDaShow Nov 2012 #2
+1,000. freshwest Nov 2012 #8
There should have been marches and demonstrations in front of Gov Scott's office. LisaL Nov 2012 #3
Sharpton has been down in FL BumRushDaShow Nov 2012 #6
This is criminal BS bkkyosemite Nov 2012 #4
+1 barnabas63 Nov 2012 #7
I imagine that many left and went home! Disefranchised! Awful. nt snappyturtle Nov 2012 #5
The GOP fully knows that these are WORKING PEOPLE who have to go to work weekdays. freshwest Nov 2012 #9
It's done on purpose. Gov Scott cut early voting days. LisaL Nov 2012 #10
KICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REC!!!!!!!! This is IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!! nt MADem Nov 2012 #11

BumRushDaShow

(129,092 posts)
2. People are going to have to start voting
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 05:18 PM
Nov 2012

EVERY YEAR. They can't just sit it out and "maybe" vote every 4 years and then only after people beg them to. Otherwise, as has happened in FL, their states end up hijacked by loonies (just like what happened here in PA).

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
3. There should have been marches and demonstrations in front of Gov Scott's office.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 05:19 PM
Nov 2012

So it wouldn't come to that!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
9. The GOP fully knows that these are WORKING PEOPLE who have to go to work weekdays.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 05:38 PM
Nov 2012
Classic tactics to disenfranchise those who are paying the bills. This is theft of many things in these people's lives, their time, money, health, housing, education, jobs and the right to not be discriminated against every day.

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