In rebuke of Gov. Rick Scott, judge grants voter registration extension
Source: Tampa Bay Times
TALLAHASSEE — A judge on Monday extended Florida's voter registration deadline by one more day, through Wednesday, because of Hurricane Matthew, calling it "irrational" for the state to reject the idea.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker granted the Florida Democratic Party's request for a temporary restraining order, which included a rebuke of Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, who had refused to extend the deadline past its scheduled expiration of 5 p.m. Tuesday.
"Quite simply, it is wholly irrational in this instance for Florida to refuse to extend the voter registration deadline when the state already allows the governor to suspend or move the election date due to an unforeseen emergency," Walker wrote in a 16-page order. "If aspiring eligible Florida voters are barred from registering to vote, then those voters are stripped of one of our most precious freedoms."
The Democrats' lawsuit also asserted that the suspension of mail delivery at the height of the storm could result in some voter registration forms not reaching election offices by Tuesday, disenfranchising more Florida residents.
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Or that we act in accord with that awareness.
Per the article, the judge is an Obama appointee! 
Rebuked!
How the hell he avoided that and then managed to get himself elected Gov, not once, but TWICE is beyond me.
When Romney lost that last election, the "Teaparty Patriots" in Ocala and the Villages cried their little hearts out in stunned disbelief while I laughed my ass off in Gainesville, an island of sanity in the Red Sea. This was about the same time the "Citizen's Grand Jury" had billboards up saying they had indited Barrack Obama for "treason" and yet Obama won all Florida's considerable Electoral votes.
Something didn't add up with the demographics that's for sure. Not into CT myself but ironically, Florida uses machine voting with no paper trail now ever since Gore almost won that one election. No more of them pesky re-counts 'cause that one was too close for the Repugs.
Lucky for brother Bush, our impartial SCOTUS stopped it just in time. 
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"Gov. Rick Scott’s push for millions of dollars to recruit businesses to Florida is taking a beating on the campaign trail.
But it’s not just Democrats slamming the Republican governor’s signature policy issue. In debates and forums, Republicans are making it abundantly clear Scott will have trouble getting the $85 million he wants for Enterprise Florida to recruit more companies to move to Florida."
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"Scott’s pitch for incentive money has already received a big thumbs down from incoming Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O’Lakes.
“There will not be any corporate welfare in the House budget,” Corcoran said after Scott initially requested the $85 million for Enterprise Florida."
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/republicans-campaigning-against-gov-rick-scotts-incentive-program/2297311
G'ville is great town. I went to school there eons ago. LOL
