Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach allowed voting for two days, other counties where prohibited from voting.
Not all together bad???? It’s a disaster! The law must apply equally, everyone must have an equal opportunity to vote.
They have repeated the mistakes of 2000.
I know the media reports on this have been confusing- let me try to explain.
Florida has three kinds of voting:
1-absentee ballots for any reason. A personal visit, phone call or email, and they mail your ballot to you. Your fill it out, seal it inside a privacy envelope and sign and date the seal, and put it into another envelope and mail it back.
2-early voting is conducted at supervisors offices and satellites for 8 days prior to the election, including 1 Sunday and 2 Saturdays. You show your ID in person, get your ballot, vote, and leave it there.
3- election day voting is conducted in every precint from 7-7- and people in line at 7pm are allowed to stay in line and vote.
Because absentee ballots are available upon request any time, and the law says voters can turn their votes in personally if there isn’t time for the mail to deliver it by 7pm on election day, the offices may stay open after early voting closes for absentee delivery and requests. It isn’t illegal- but it is optional.
I know the stupid media played it up as some rogue action, but it really wasn’t. The Democrats turned out big numbers of voters in those 3 counties- and they were unprepared for a lengthy ballot, and took forever to vote, backing up the lines we all saw televised. It took me exactly 10 minutes to vote on every question, because I studied the sample ballot every voter recieved and knew what I was going to do before I got there. Taking an hour to vote, or complaining the amendments took too long to read is just leftist manipulation.
One thing I learned during Election 2000 was that the media knows NOTHING about the law, is lazy, and relies on someone to tell them what happened. How many people believe Katherine Harris personally expunged names from the voter rolls? Or that she influenced the Supervisors to “steal” the election for Bush? Bald faced lies- but they were repeated so often, everyone seems to believe it. Very frustrating.