Comments on: Battle Over Early Voting In Florida Appears To Be Over

By: No Excuses

No Excuses — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:56:51 +0000

Souls to the polls will have to take place other than on the scheduled Sunday since it is no longer available, won’t it? Like anything else, people can adjust their schedules to accommodate what they want to do. I don’t see how changing the schedule will adversely affect anyone – just plan it for a different time for voting for Pete’s sake!

By: LEO GUY

LEO GUY — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:09:52 +0000

@Henry Coe

Are you trying to say the republicans will not be out cheated?

By: David Schwartz

David Schwartz — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:57:39 +0000

Cancelling Sunday voting is purely strategic. It’s obvious who it effects the most. Souls to the polls is an obvious target. It’s a tradition going back decades when elderly black voters get a lift to the polls. This is an obvious problem for Rick Scott. They couldn’t be more obvious in their intent to simply make it harder to vote. It’s as blatant as it gets. Trying to frame it any other way stretches credibility to the breaking point and makes those who do so look like idiots. The thing is, they don’t care if it does. The fact that Rick Scott is without a doubt a one-term governor means he can try anything.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:08:08 +0000

Gee, I was under the impression that anyone could vote any day the poles were open. Or you can vote by absentee ballot. I don’t see how that keeps anyone from voting.

By: Just Me

Just Me — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:30:04 +0000

Would someone please explain to my, why blacks and minorities cannot get to the poles the same times that whites can???? Corrine Brown, has done nothing to help the blacks and minorities. Just glad to see she doing something. For years her boxes sat in the same place on the floor and had never been moved and she was NEVER there. This is just amazing to me….

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:09:58 +0000

Jane asked: “I have a question; since when is voting an African American issue, since this law seems to affect all voters, whatever the race and sex?”

@Jane,

It’s really a voting rights issue, but the African American/Black community as a demographic votes in large numbers on the Sunday before Tuesday voting. That why the Florida Republicans stopped having two Sunday’s of early voting. They can’t campaign to win by way of a political platform, so they try to win by manipulating who can vote and when.

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:51:41 +0000

Mr. Coe, I disagree with you. EARLY voting is for anyone who wants to vote, regardless of their race, color or creed! It wasn’t instituted just for the Democrats,but for ALL PEOPLE!, regardless of the party they chose to belong to. Personally I believe that parties should be done away with. All the MUD slinging that goes on is enough to make one sick! I go along with Mr. Mike and Mr. Lowgun!! Sorry if this disappoints you, but I hear from family members all the time how great the Democrat party is, I just haven’t discovered what’s so great about it. Maybe at one time, but now —OH_OH_OH I think NOT. Abortion, same sex marriage, what next, READ THE BIBLE-God’s word is against such! Along with a lot of others things that go in this country of ours. We were founded on FREEDOM OF RELIGION, but that’s being taken away a little at the time if you’re a Jesus Christ/God believing person, which I happen to be.

By: Rufus Lowgun

Rufus Lowgun — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:42:11 +0000

What documented case of voter fraud is restricting early voting supposed to address, again? Can anyone give me even one example of voter fraud due to early voting? We should be doing everything we can to get more people to vote, not trying to get less people to vote.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:52:09 +0000

I have a question; since when is voting an African American issue, since this law seems to affect all voters, whatever the race and sex?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:43:35 +0000

Hey Henry, I’m a veteran and I can use my right of free speech to disagree with you. You have the right to your opinion, of course, but so do I.

It’s really sad that entitlement Democrats, socialist in nature, who don’t get what they want in a courtroom will resort to name-calling and insults like children. They say they love liberty and freedom yet support the lawsuits in the Judical branch of government to overturn what was VOTED ON in the Legislative branch of state government by our ELECTED representatives. If taken to the State Supreme Court, they will determine the law constitutional.

Florida Democrats love to cry to the media and play the victim at the same time throwing insults, even when crying about things that are not true.

Let freedom ring by protecting the integrity of our vote. Purge dead voters from the list and require picture ID. Even non-drivers can get a state picture ID and requiring it does not discriminate. My mother-in-law does not drive and she has one. Also ensure that all military votes are counted, instead of trying to disenfranchise many of them like the Democrats tried in 2000 in a courtroom.

The Democrat political platform that supports partial-birth abortion is what’s discusting. Showing Russian Navy ships during the military show of their convention didn’t help either. That mistake was published by Navy Times.

Have a nice day!