Primary day voting begins for South Florida

sun-sentinel.com ^ | 01/29/08 | Elizabeth Baier, Alexia Campbell, Mark Hollis & Sallie James

[TornadoAlley3]

South Florida voters took to the polls in force Tuesday, setting the stage for what may be a record turnout for a primary election and deciding a make-or-break race for Republican presidential hopefuls. Early reports showed few problems at polling precincts.

[tortdog]

>I wouldn’t say the Independent guy is stupid, but he’s certainly dishonest. A person with integrity would have left the candidate section blank and just voted the amendment.

I wouldn’t say that. The poll worker told him that he HAD to choose. He obeyed the order.

I’d have asked for two ballots...

[Hattie]

Wonder if this is why Zogby has McCain up 4 this am? All these independents are going to be allowed to vote in the Rep primary, a closed one?

[nmh]

Someone needs to SCREECH about this.

This maybe a sneaky way for LIBERALS to get McCain in.

[NeilGus]

I will if I get a chance.

[Matchett-PI]

Elections Fraud Hotline at 1- 877-868-3737.

I called the hot line and gave her the details. She said she had received another call previous to mine and that she is aware of this situation. She specifically confirmed to me that such a practice is fraudulent.

[mwl1]

I hope someone lets the Romney people know about this immediately — someone on the ground in Broward has to correct this immediately

[LadyNavyVet]

I agree that the poll workers were wrong. But so was he. He should have left that part blank. Integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody’s watching. The guy knew he didn’t have the right to vote that portion, and the fact that the pollworkers were incompetent doesn’t change that.

[TornadoAlley3]

[PJ-Comix]

Drudge has it now.

WOO HOO!!! And I hope Rush talks about this later.

[LadyNavyVet]

I just got through, too. We should all call. The woman I talked to was not aware of it, but she took down the information and said she would call Broward Co. to get them to look into it.

[Matchett-PI]

Drudge Report: http://www.drudgereport.com/

[Road Warrior ‘04]

After receiving two push poll phone calls yesterday about Mitt, I just can’t imagine who would support such a practice. /s

[seekthetruth]

“More nightmare stories coming from the state of Flori-DUH!
How hard can it be to run an election properly?”

Just got back from voting and no lines but folks coming in steadly. Went during working hours, so sure the lines will form after 3:00PM today. Guess for the General Election I will vote by mail. Suntan Governor made sure we are back to paper ballots for the General!

[meandog]

Some (as in many other successful people) other famous American "tempers": (political) Samuel Adams, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, (military) William T. Sherman, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Glascow Farragut, George Dewey, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton. (sports) Vince Lombardi, Woody Hayes, Bobby Knight, Bill Belichick, Bobby Cox, George Steinbrenner.

Your point?

You've spammed this message enough already!

[musicman]

"More nightmare stories coming from the state of Flori-DUH!

How hard can it be to run an election properly?!"

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Boynton Beach

Palm Beach County. Go figure!

[nmh]

That’s good!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I mean how STUPID (or devious) are those poll workers?

Your question is answered in the the first word of your post....Broward County!

[Matchett-PI]

I notified Marissa at our local MittRomney office in Winter Park, and here’s what she just wrote back to me:

From: “Marisa Tank” MTank@mittromney.com
To: “-—Matchett”

Great thank you. I just had a supporter come in to our Winter Park HQ and say something about it and I was going to give them a call. Thanks for beating me to the punch!
Way to stay on top of it.

Marisa

[Alice in Wonderland]

We had a new system today. Just one line. They scanned my driver’s license and I had to sign on a touch screen. Then I was handed my ballot and headed off to a booth to vote.