Posted on 10/28/2008 1:27:40 PM PDT by steve-b
Declaring a state of emergency in Florida because of long voting lines, Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday extended early voting hours across the state to 12 hours a day.
The executive order comes after record early voting turnout has contributed to long lines at polling sites.
Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours a day each weekday and for a total of eight hours during the weekends. With Crist's order, early voting sites will be open the rest of this week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. They will be open a total of 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday, the last day of early voting....
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What happen to “election Day” it should now be called election month?
My guess is Crist thinks early voting is going McCain’s way.
What a scam, early voting and Gov Crist.
Why not we go back to election day?
Or maybe, free pies, vote here.
What happen to “election Day” it should now be called election month?
"Who put the "Duh!" in Floriduh?"
Yes, once upon a time, a person could only vote once, twice if they were lucky. Now with early voting, there is plenty of time for lots and lots of voting.
one of the morning show reporters in FL let something slip; FL and OH are going toward McCain, so far.
Isn’t the conventional wisdom that a large turnout favors the democrat?
WOW! I might actually go and vote this evening!...........
I agree. Election day should remain election day. Not early voting for a month or more for folks to stuff the ballot boxes. No month or more for folks to rotate from precinct to precinct voting inplace of the illegally registered or doing same day registration and vote then “return home to Chicago” as was recently done in Ohio.
If you need an absentee ballot to vote early, go to the courthouse and get it, otherwise vote on election day only.
It was before 2000 and 2004. The GOP creatd a huge GOTV machine with this micro-targeting thing. Now large turnout tends to favor GOP candidates. Esp. makes sense when you consider that Democrats have been doing GOTV for so long that they are going to reach their ceiling sooner than Republicans.
I hope Crist does not help Obambi by doing something stupid. He is a RINO like Mel Martinez (barf).
Nothing seems conventional about this election!
can you provide a source about early voting for McCain
i read something earlier this morning suggesting the opposite
excellent, now some of my friends can go vote early. the lines have been too long - this should shorten them.
Actually, early voting is a great idea, and having done it (and being a poll watcher), I can tell you it is more orderly and much less susceptible to problems than when a huge mob arrives on election day. Well, I shouldn’t have used the word mob, maybe.
Early voting also protects us if the actual Election Day gets disrupted, which may well happen now that The One has told his followers to stay home from work and school that day and “work for him.”
My guess is Crist thinks early voting is going McCain’s way.
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Not so much:
http://people-press.org/report/465/mccain-support-declines
I voted early today in a Fl precinct that is as red as it gets. I went at 10:30 and had to wait in a short line, but the line was still there when I left. Just for fun I swung by again about 2:30 on my way back home and the line was still there.
Last year early voting was MUCH less crowded.
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