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[Schadow]

Election officials in Florida's 16th congressional district wanted to post signs at the district's polling places to inform voters whom they would be voting for since the ballots still carried Mark Foley's name. The signs would have read, "Marking your ballot for Tim Mahoney (D) will be a vote for Tim Mahoney (D). Marking your ballot for Mark Foley (R) will be a vote for Joe Negron (R)".

It's pretty universal, and reasonable, that "electioneering" signs cannot be posted within 100 feet of polling places. Electioneering means trying to persuade voters to vote for a particular candidate. Calling attention to a flaw in the ballots should, IMO, rightfully be called "voter education".

Democrats predictably went to court and Circuit Judge Janet Ferris predictably ruled in their favor, defining "voter education" as instruction in operating voting machines, etc. An especially egregious effect of this ruling is that troops in the field or overseas voting absentee will be clueless about this glitch unless a relative or buddy lets them know the score.

So, unless appeals overturn this outrage, the Dems will have scored a really big scam. First, timing the 'outing' of the Foley thing after the deadline for reprinting ballots; then getting a ruling by a sympathetic judge against a reasonable, apolitical sign. And our absentee troops, who are already marking ballots, will be discriminated against.

Democrats, champions of voter education? Only when it suits them.

The full story can be found in today's Jacksonville Commercial Appeal.

Schadow
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Capt, 8th U.S. Army, Korea '53 - '54

[streetsweeper95B]

I liked this part, at least someone at the DOD is on the ball:


"The Department of Defense Federal Voting Assistance Program issued a news release explaining the situation. It then was e-mailed by the State Department to many overseas voters including troops stationed in Iraq.

Negron issued his own news release that quoted an Iraq veteran, Marine Cpl. David Snyder, as saying Mahoney "should be ashamed of his disgraceful efforts to keep our fighting men and women overseas in the dark."

A Mahoney spokeswoman did not immediately comment."

She's afraid she'd sink her dinky lil raft or something? lol
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[Schadow]

An update to this uphill fight is provided by Byron York writing in National Review Online today. Early voting is taking place and there's some evidence that publicity has had a positive effect.

[Me#1You#10]

The Democrat obsession with regaining power combined with not very well thought out over-reaches has scored yet another coup for the GOP. Had they just kept their litigious mouths shut, the placing of non-partisan "voter education" information would have been a non-event.

Now, just as in 2000 with their blatant attempt to negate military write-in votes, the jackasses have blackened their own eyes and, by elevating the issue, helped to educate (and perhaps energize) the GOP voting population.

Well done

[NortonPete]