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Big Early-Voting Crowds in Florida
WSJ ^
| 10/27.12
| Peter Nicholas
Posted on 10/27/2012 1:50:35 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
MIAMI – Early voting opened on Saturday in Florida, the largest battleground state in the presidential election, with people waiting hours in some cases to cast ballots.
“I’ll wait six hours” if necessary, said Mia Waters, 45, of Miami, a retired U.S. Army soldier, as she stood outside a county government building in downtown Miami, waiting to vote. “I want to exercise my right, no matter how long it takes.”
Wait times at some Miami-Dade county polling locations reached five hours as of mid-afternoon Saturday, the county elections department said.
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To: Uncle Slayton
Yup....my wife and I went to vote today late and decided to go back early tomorrow..... The lines were simply too long.... probably at least 150 people outside in line...
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posted on
10/27/2012 1:54:25 PM PDT
by
Popman
(November 7th...will be a good day for America..)
To: Uncle Slayton
Sounds like good news for US! How were the lines on Calle Ocho?
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posted on
10/27/2012 1:55:37 PM PDT
by
WellyP
(question!)
To: Uncle Slayton
Sounds like good news for US! How were the lines on Calle Ocho?
4
posted on
10/27/2012 1:55:54 PM PDT
by
WellyP
(question!)
To: Popman
My sister lives in Fla. Said she saw the following sign in someones yard.
VOTE FOR THE AMERICAN ON NOVEMBER 6
I like it.
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posted on
10/27/2012 1:56:45 PM PDT
by
Lacey2
To: Uncle Slayton
I also voted first day in OHIO feels like a month ago, because it WAS almost a month ago.
This early voting crap is for the birds. Use to have to vote election day. Why can’t we still vote election day!
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posted on
10/27/2012 1:58:42 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Popman
Got a feeling high turnout this time is chik fila style
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posted on
10/27/2012 1:59:32 PM PDT
by
prov1813man
(While the one you despise and ridicule works to protect you, those you embrace work to destroy you)
To: Uncle Slayton
We voted today in Lakeland. This is the first time I have “early voted”, so I am not sure what a normal line looks like. Arrived just after 1:00.
Our wait time was slightly under two hours.
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:04:54 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
To: Uncle Slayton
why don’t they have more places to vote. i have been voting for over 30 years and it has never taken more than 2 or 3 minutes to go through a line. 5 hours? That’s crazy
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:05:49 PM PDT
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: sarasmom
To: sarasmom
Wow i live in winter haven. have never voted early. did you vote in bartow or lakeland?
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:14:20 PM PDT
by
Donnafrflorida
(Thru HIM all things are possible.)
To: Uncle Slayton
The ballot is so long. 4 full pages, if you haven’t read the amendments before you go (as I imagine many people won’t have) there’s going to be a real back up on election day.
To: Lacey2
My sister lives in Fla. Said she saw the following sign in someones yard.
VOTE FOR THE AMERICAN ON NOVEMBER 6
I like it.
So do I!
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:18:08 PM PDT
by
JustaCowgirl
(Storm the heavens with your prayers for Mitt Romney tonight.)
To: Jim from C-Town
Why can’t we still vote election day!
Because - when it rains, Democrats don't vote. If it rains, snows, or is cold & windy on Election Day, the pinko-commies stay home.
Early voting is just another Liberal scam to get out their base over some extra period of time.
It also gives Dems a better opportunity to prepare for a re-count.
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:27:21 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Uncle Slayton
No state should go along with the Democrat scam of early voting. Either you show up on election day or you don’t care enough to vote. Many employers gave you time off to go vote. And only the really old and disabled should get absentee ballots
Early voting is always a Democrat initiative. No Republican in a state legislature should agree to it
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:33:33 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
To: oh8eleven
Mark my words, we will get burned by all the easy voting crap at some point.
My union cousin says there’s talk of a push for workplace voting now too.
I can see it now. Ballots will come into a shop and a couple of union officials will sit down and fill out all the ballots, then ballot applications will be given a signature.
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:34:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Uncle Slayton
This is what people practicing to vote against Ubama look like.
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:37:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
To: dennisw
Virtually everything we've ever done to "empower" the voters has driven us more firmly toward the democrats because population centers win. The 17th amendment is a perfect example of what happens when a popular vote chooses senators. Here in Michigan Senators are chosen by Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Flint while the rest of the state votes republican.
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:48:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Uncle Slayton
LONGEST lines i’ve ever seen in Polk county ...a lot of fed up people out there....determined to get things straightened out....
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posted on
10/27/2012 2:57:59 PM PDT
by
jimsin
To: Uncle Slayton
People must be really, really pissed. I know I am.
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