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Election Day in Florida May Look Familiar
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 28, 2008 08:30am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Monday, April 28, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: April 28, 2008
MIAMI — The League of Women Voters in Florida and its 27 local groups have helped thousands of residents register to vote over the years.
But just over a week ago, the organization’s leaders said they would have to stop their current drive because the state’s top election official planned to enforce strict deadlines and fines of up to $1,000 for groups that lose voter registration forms or turn them in late.
“We’re an all-volunteer organization,” said Dianne Wheatley-Giliotti, president of the League of Women Voters in Florida, which plans to sue. “It’s a matter of being able to protect the leagues from liability.”
Eight years after the debacle of “hanging chads,” Florida once again seems to be courting electoral trouble. A handful of laws have been passed since the 2000 presidential recount, with state officials saying they bring order to a chaotic system.
“Some say we err on the side of caution,” said Joe Pickens, a Republican from Palatka who served on the Florida House’s Ethics and Elections Committee in 2005 and 2006. “I would say that’s the place we should be.”
But Election Day may end up looking oddly familiar. According to independent elections experts at Pew’s Electionline.org and other organizations, it is now harder to vote here than in nearly every other state in the nation. Some critics predict that tens of thousands of potential voters will be kept off the rolls — many of them poor, black or Hispanic. |
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