Theresa LePore strikes again in Florida

Florida

Theresa LePore, she of the hanging chads, has done it again.

Besides not putting enough voting machines in each
of the few places open for early voting, causing long long lines and 2 1/2 hour waits, which causes
the early voters to turn around and go home....

Theresa, who switched to Republican after the butterfly ballot, (as if she wasn't before) has already thrown out 14,000 absentee ballots. Why?

At the bottom, under the pledge that you are a
US Citizen, there is a place to sign. You sign.

BUT her hanging chad is: she also placed a box next to it, and if you dont put a check in the box that you are a citizen, despite signing, she
throws the vote away.

And a republican judge has agreed with her.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/gen/ap/FL_Florida_Voting.html

"The forms were from people who signed to affirm their eligibility, but failed to provide an identification number, such as from a driver's license or a Social Security card, or check boxes affirming their citizenship, mental capacity and felony status.

Applicants filling out registration cards are required to sign a form, affirming that they meet eligibility requirements, but applicants must also check separate boxes on the form.

Attorneys with the Washington-based Advancement Project said the plaintiffs would file an appeal by Friday. The group argued that the rejections disqualified more than 14,000 people across the state, with a disparate effect on minorities. Nearly 45 percent of the challenged forms in one county, Duval, came from blacks.

"Our goal is still to see if we can get relief for our clients before Election Day," said Sheila Thomas, an Advancement Project attorney."

Palm Beach County isn't that large. I had heard about the decision statewide.

I wholeheartedly agree that asking people to check the box in additional to signing is redundant, and that failure to check the box should not be considered a material omission that invalidates the ballot.

But still . . . why the hell couldn't these people fill out the ballot completely? Why WOULDN'T they check the box?

If there was no instruction on the form to check the box, than the ballots should be allowed. If their were no instruction accompanying the box, than the ballot can be rejected.

Though I agree, this is bullshit!!!

State law is quite specific that if the intent of the voter is obvious, regardless of technical mistakes in completing the ballot, the vote counts. This should have been enforced with the overvotes in '00, and it should be now. Time to appeal this.

Florida's state Supremes will count the votes. The Rethuglicans will take it to federal court be denied, they'll appeal and get an injunction. Than it will go to the Supremes.

If we're lucky, Rehnquist will expire before the shit hits the court!!!!

they did that in 2000 all over the repug area. throw away the democrats and fix the repugs. they didnt get in trouble.

make them verify that they are citizens?

Why hasn't someone taken that reptilian whore and put her in jail yet?