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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
barnabas63
(1,214 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,092 posts)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).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)So it wouldn't come to that!
BumRushDaShow
(129,092 posts)with his "Operation Lemonade" and has been one of the biggest pushers this whole year, for Voting Rights.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/15/3051419/operation-lemonade-started-by.html