10 Florida Republicans Who Helped Make Voting More Difficult

UPDATE November 11, 2012
The votes have finally been counted, at least for the most part according to officials. They still don't have all of the military votes but since President Obama has over 70,000 more votes, those votes won't change the end result.

There is a Nov. 16 deadline for overseas and military ballots, but under Florida law, recounts are based on Saturday's results. Only a handful of overseas and military ballots are believed to remain outstanding.

It's one thing to have your own political views and want to defend them. What is not right is trying to prevent people from doing what you want the right to do.

Governor Scott and these politicians should be ashamed of themselves. Aside from adding another hindrance to voters, they managed to give them even more reason to vote next time to make sure these people are out of office!

10 Florida Republicans Who Helped Make Voting More Difficult
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Huffington Post
Janie Campbell
Joey Francilus
Posted: 11/09/2012

Who is responsible for Florida's second infamous elections debacle since 2000?

There will be plenty of blame to go around, especially when Miami-Dade County finally finishes counting provisional ballots and gets to the bottom of who declined to shore up voting operations, and when. But blame will also likely fall on conservative state legislators, who fought for two years to reduce the number of early voting days and limit registration after heavy 2008 turnout in the state for Democrats.

"Obama won the most where the lines were the longest," former state Sen. Dan Gelber (D-Miami Beach) told the Tampa Bay Times, speaking of the 2012 turnout.

Gelber called the law reducing early voting "hubris and overreaching by the Republicans, who may learn a lesson that 'Maybe we shouldn't abuse our prisoners that much because sometimes they'll get back at you.'"

Citing admittedly non-existent fraud, the GOP gang reduced the number of early voting days from 14 to 8, eliminating the Sunday before Election Day disproportionately preferred, in large numbers, by blacks, Hispanics, young people and first-time voters.
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