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Surge in Early Balloting Shifts Florida Races (Rooty's NYC liberals switching voter registrations?)
NY TIMES ^ | January 27, 2008 | ADAM NAGOURNEY

Posted on 01/28/2008 3:53:49 AM PST by Liz

BOCA RATON, Fla. A flood of early ballots from Republican voters, has already exceeded the turnout in the contests in Iowa, NH and Nevada. As of Friday night, nearly 400,000 party Republicans had cast early votes, either in person or by mail......There were 3.8 million Republicans qualified to vote Tuesday. That offers a glimmer of hope to Giuliani's calculated effort to get his supporters to vote early hoping to bank a substantial number of votes before losses in other early states raised questions about his viability and his competitors arrived in the state, driving down his numbers in the polls.

As late as Thursday, Mr. Giuliani was still reminding supporters to vote early, as he has done at almost every stop here this month. “We are already voting, right?” he asked the crowd. Florida is one of 37 states that permit residents to vote early, either with early voting or wide-open absentee voting,.......Giuliani’s supporters and some rivals said his effort to bank early votes could save him from a devastating defeat, even though it may not be enough to bring him victory, and thus serve as a case study of one of the objections to the system.

"Rudy’s people have aggressively worked absentees, particularly in South Florida,” said Sally Bradshaw, who is running Mr. Romney’s campaign here. “They knew Rudy was not strong in the early primary states and they needed people to vote for Rudy before the results came on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: autocrat; evoting; fl2008; giuliani; gungrabber; julieannie; liberalgiuliani; liberalrudy; rinogiuliani; rinorudy; seeyarudy
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To: Liz
"Besides, My Girdle is Killing Me."

Hmmmmm, nah never mind. I don't want to go there ;-)

21 posted on 01/28/2008 8:50:52 AM PST by Condor51 (I wouldn't vote for Rooty under any circumstance -- even if Waterboarded!)
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To: Condor51
"Besides, My Girdle is Killing Me.".....Hmmmmm, nah never mind. I don't want to go there ;-)

Watta gentleman you are (blush).

22 posted on 01/28/2008 8:54:48 AM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Liz

Actually, I think it would be great it Rudy wins Florida because it will keep him in the race, which keeps the RINO/Independent vote split between him and McCain.


23 posted on 01/28/2008 8:56:18 AM PST by apillar
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To: Condor51; Tennessee Nana; calcowgirl; TommyDale; stephenjohnbanker; indylindy; TitansAFC; Spiff; ..
.......if I was the Secretary of State in Florida, I'd try to deny (questionable Giuliani voters) to be able to cast a vote and disallow all those who did vote..........

Fla's Secy of State is ALSO Chief of Elections.

EMAIL secretaryofstate@dos.state.fl.us

Telephone: 850.245.6500---- Fax: 850.245.6125

Secretary of State
Florida Department of State
R. A. Gray Building
500 South Bronough Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250

Gov Charlie Crist (McCain backer) might be very upset over Giuliani flying in his voters (voters who may already voted absentee).

EMAIL Charlie.Crist@myflorida.com.

Phone: 850-488-7146----Fax: 850-487-0801

Mailing Address
Office of the Governor
The Capitol
400 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399

24 posted on 01/28/2008 9:10:13 AM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Liz
Palm Beach County has the largest concentration of folks born in New York outside of New York itself, but such folks are overwhelmingly Wexlercrats.

Rudy should have worked the midwestern retirees on the West Coast, but he seemed more interested in the Presidency of Del Boca Vista, Phase II than that of the US.

25 posted on 01/28/2008 10:24:26 AM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
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To: Condor51

“This duel nationality and voting ‘carp’ needs to end ASAP.”

Voting depends on where you are a citizen. My son has lived in England for over twenty years, however he is an American citizen, not a British citizen. He gets an absentee ballot sent to him from this country and he votes.

American citizens living in Israel are the same. Doesn’t matter where you live, if you’re an American citizen living anywhere, you may still vote just as if you were living in your home country.


26 posted on 01/28/2008 10:43:01 AM PST by Marcella (Anyone have an extra mitten?)
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To: Marcella; Condor51
My son has lived in England for over twenty years... He gets an absentee ballot sent to him.....Doesn’t matter where you live, if you’re an American citizen living anywhere, you may still vote just as if you were living in your home country.

No problem with that---your son is responsibly exercising his citizenship.

The point here is about people being flown into the US to vote.........possibly voting again and again.

27 posted on 01/28/2008 11:30:48 AM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Liz
Cheating won't help this fool.

All cheating ever got Rudy was a couple of divorces.

Bernie is warming up the love nest for Rudy's return.

28 posted on 01/28/2008 11:33:38 AM PST by tear gas (Because of the 22nd Amendment, we are losing President. Bush. Can we afford to lose him now?)
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To: tear gas
Cheating won't help this fool. All cheating ever got Rudy was a couple of divorces. Bernie is warming up the love nest for Rudy's return.

ROTFLMSO-----good one. Thanks.

29 posted on 01/28/2008 12:01:44 PM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Marcella
My problem is NOT with Americans living abroad and voting - it's solely the Duel Nationality junk.
30 posted on 01/28/2008 12:12:07 PM PST by Condor51 (I wouldn't vote for Rooty under any circumstance -- even if Waterboarded!)
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