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Report: Top Florida Republicans say election law was intentionally designed to suppress the vote
THE HILL ^ | 11/27/12 | J Easley

Posted on 11/27/2012 8:39:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Two former top Florida Republicans say a new law that shortened the early voting period in the state was designed by the GOP to suppress the Democratic vote, not to curb voter fraud, according to a report Monday from the Palm Beach Post.

The Palm Beach Post quoted Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer and former Gov. Charlie Crist, neither of whom is still a party member, and a handful of other party operatives, who said claims the law was designed to curb voter fraud in the state were merely a marketing ploy to provide cover for the party’s voter suppression efforts.

“The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told The Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only. … We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; vote
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Isn't Greer under investigation for corruption? And Crist has been a weasel for years... but CNN just covered this like it was gospel.

Look for an onslaught from the sycophantic Obama worshiping Florida media.

1 posted on 11/27/2012 8:39:56 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Joe Brower

Florida news....Crist is back again. Gag.


2 posted on 11/27/2012 8:41:24 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
The Palm Beach Post quoted Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer and former Gov. Charlie Crist, neither of whom is still a party member

Tell us again how former GOP members = Top Florida Republicans.

3 posted on 11/27/2012 8:43:02 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: SoFloFreeper

Greer is going to jail for corruption. He was very close with Crist.

Crist isn’t a republican anymore.


4 posted on 11/27/2012 8:43:31 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
neither of whom is still a party member...

The Hill, blatantly lying again.

5 posted on 11/27/2012 8:44:00 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: SoFloFreeper

Liars.....

Grifters .....


6 posted on 11/27/2012 8:46:32 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Some element of truth in that title, I suppose. The election law was intentionally designed to suppress voter fraud. Since the Democrats live on voter fraud, it was intentionally designed to suppress Democrat votes.


7 posted on 11/27/2012 8:47:39 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I guess the GOP doing everything it can to suppress the Conservative vote isn’t news...


8 posted on 11/27/2012 8:49:16 AM PST by montanajoe
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Voter suppression” is code word for “stop Democrats from voting more than once.”


9 posted on 11/27/2012 8:49:44 AM PST by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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Report: Top Florida Republicans say election law was intentionally designed to suppress the vote

By the election results, It appears the Republican party didn't even manage to get that right...

10 posted on 11/27/2012 8:55:45 AM PST by apillar
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Top Republicans?”


11 posted on 11/27/2012 8:59:26 AM PST by Fido969
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To: SoFloFreeper

These people are no longer Republicans. The headline for this article is simply a lie. They are now Democrats, and Democrats lie all the time.


12 posted on 11/27/2012 9:05:12 AM PST by Essie
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So? The Democrats push for early and often voting because their constituents are too stupid, lazy, and DEAD to all make it to the polls on the ONE AND ONLY day that the Constitution calls for national elections.
13 posted on 11/27/2012 9:09:19 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Isn’t Greer under investigation for corruption? “

Someone may have offered a deal to get out of those charges, and that’s what we saw on CNN.


14 posted on 11/27/2012 9:09:54 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Jim from C-Town

That’s not in the constitution, it’s in the US Code.


15 posted on 11/27/2012 9:11:42 AM PST by DBrow
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To: driftdiver

Emphasis on “former”.

These are not clear representatives of the Republican party of Florida, which has gone through a fundamentally deep restructuring.

Maybe not enough, yet, but still a work in progress.


16 posted on 11/27/2012 9:14:16 AM PST by alloysteel (Bronco Bama - the cowboy who whooped up and widened the stampede.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So 0 was elected by fraud! Ho hum. The media will never cover it.


17 posted on 11/27/2012 9:15:32 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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Early voting is not good for the GOP because of the increased voter fraud.

And just a reminder, the GOPe backed the fake-Republican Crist ahead of the upstart Rubio. Now of course Rubio’s a GOPe guy, but still, it’s the tea party that got him in office.


18 posted on 11/27/2012 9:18:17 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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I personally think early voting itself is like holding the door open for fraud. Voting should be for those ambitious enough to take the time, not for those who vote because its easy.

Here's a story that popped up here this morning in Michigan. One union heavy precinct took an extra day of voting and didn't bother to notify republican poll watchers.

Extra Early Voting Opportunity in Heavily Democratic Area Raises Eyebrows 'One clerk decided the voters of one city would get a voting opportunity those in the rest of the state didn't get'

Considering how badly the union ballot proposals were crushed you really have to wonder about the bizarre numbers in Michigan.
19 posted on 11/27/2012 9:19:35 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Let us take up the gauntlet. Early voting is not good for Florida, Ohio or any other State. It affords more time for the Acorn type of agitator, to herd more uninformed, less motivated & less competent "voters" to the polls, after the "Community Organizers," are able to coach them how to vote.

Now suffrage was supposed to be controlled by each State, Article I, Sec. 2, of the Federal Constitution. Can anyone conceive of any reason why we--as decent, concerned Americans--forget Party identification;--any reason why any, decent, loyal & concerned American, would want to see a heavier vote from a poorly informed, controlled electorate? Moreover, an electorate increasingly being bribed by an ever expanded Welfare system--an obvious conflict of interest?

We need to stop apologizing from taking a stand that the Founding Fathers would have taken to a man! We need to demand that any voter be acting clearly on his or her own volition; his or her own, personally responsible, motivation; and not being bribed by demagogues & their followers.

William Flax

20 posted on 11/27/2012 9:25:11 AM PST by Ohioan
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