Florida's GOP lawmakers blamed for early-voting lines

McClatchy, Miami Herald by Charles Rabin, Larry Lebowitz, Michael Vasquez | Oct. 23, 2008 (News Report)

From Miami City Hall to the Southwest Regional Library in Pembroke Pines, voters on Monday and Tuesday -- the first two days of early voting -- sweated out waits of two to five hours. Broward reported record turnout for early voting, which ends Nov. 2.

Now, the debate over those achingly long lines has turned political. Some Democratic leaders contend the bill intentionally slowed down a process that has historically benefited the ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Republicans
Member Tags: Voter disenfranchisement, florida
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Oct 23, 2008 - 4:42 PM PDT
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Mike LaBonte
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 by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 29, 2008

This describes exhaustively how bad the problem is. At first glance it seems unfair to make it a political issue out of it, but statements from partisan officials do support the notion. A number of statements are dropped in here without much needed exploration.

One important point missed is that the limited early polling sites trying to cope with many voters are using on-demand ballot printing, which is causing many of the problems. A few days ago I derided Florida for being able to botch even paper ballot voting, but now I understand that early voting is a limited operation.

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Jim Lang
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 by Jim Lang - Oct. 24, 2008

This is an objective, well sourced article based principally on facts but which has been sensationalized with a headline that refers to an assertion of secondary prominence in the piece. The assertion that the GOP is to blame for long lines isn't explored and is not the principal subject of the article (which is not to say that it is not true -- just that it is not featured or proven).

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 23, 2008

The Republican effort to suppress voter turnout is shown here by the Florida example.

What party was throwing around grenades about "un-American?"

Though the library stopped letting people enter the line at 3 p.m., some didn’t reach a voting machine for another five hours, said elections office clerk Gerard ... More »

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