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(114,904 posts) Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:52 PM Nov 2012

We really are a banana republic: FL voters told they can vote Wednesday by elections department

TAMPA -- About 12,000 phones in Pinellas County started ringing on election day with a reassuring automated message: Voters still had until Wednesday to turn in their absentee ballots.

By then, of course, the election would be over and the votes wouldn't count. Such calls are often a classic political dirty trick, but these calls came straight from the Pinellas County Elections Department.

An automated dialer started making calls around 8 a.m. Tuesday -- by mistake, using Monday's outdated message, said Nancy Whitlock, elections department communications director.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-florida-absentee-ballots-election-day-20121106,0,5461159.story