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Posted on 10/19/2018 3:40:21 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Answering a call from supervisors of elections in the devastated counties Hurricane Michael directly targeted, Gov. Rick Scott issued Executive Order 18-283 Thursday, granting Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty, and Washington counties the authority to extend and enhance voting options based on needs and challenges they have identified.
-- Locally-elected supervisors of elections in the impacted counties are now able to extend the amount of days of early voting, designate additional early voting locations and expedite the delivery and acceptance of vote-by-mail ballots. Each of these locally-elected supervisors of elections have reported significant obstacles created by Hurricane Michael preventing them from administering an election without these accommodations. These obstacles include, but are not limited to, damage to polling locations, extended telecommunications service disruptions, and large percentages of the counties’ population without power. Supervisors of Elections have not reported any damage to voting machines and all election-related equipment, including ballots, are secure.
-- The locally-elected supervisors in the eight affected counties will be able to determine if additional early voting sites and days are necessary. The early voting period in the affected counties can begin as early as Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, and can extend through election day Nov. 6, 2018.
- Executive Order 18-283 directs Secretary of State Ken Detzner to coordinate with each supervisor of elections in Florida to ensure Florida National Guard troops, first responders, law enforcement, volunteers, and utility power restoration workers engaged in the recovery efforts in the panhandle and anyone who evacuated from the storm can cast a ballot.
-- The restriction on vote-by-mail ballots being forwarded to a different address has been waived. This will help displaced voters to cast a ballot. The Executive Order also waives provisions so voters in the affected counties can more easily obtain vote-by-mail ballots.
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One can’t help but think that this curveball is going to create quite a mess with finding and inventing late voters.
This area is solid red. This is a good move.
For once the GOP has a reason to “submit just enough votes at the last minute”...
Is voter registration already closed in the area? Otherwise, what’s to stop disruptors from having people “move in” for the election? One good thing they do in OH is close voter registrations and change of address one month before the actual election, so when early voting begins the voter lists are final.
Is Tallahassee in one of these counties? If so, I assume Gillum will use this to put the city’s Rat vote creation machine into hyperdrive.
Tallahassee is in Leon county and not part of the Executive order.
How many of them are RATs who will use that opportunity to stuff ballot boxes?
Tallahassee is in Leon County
Yep. Closed. This is for voting only
Absolutely! Most of our relatives in Florida are conservatives, thank goodness.
Deep red area in the FL Panhandle.
Its an illegal order. Scott doesn’t control the election process. The Secretary of State and the legislature does.
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