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Aerows

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31. FL voting

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 12:27 AM

Jun 2012

has been screwed up for so long - and I use the term screwed up because the f-word I would like to use truly expresses my feelings, but isn't nice - I'm glad the Obama administration has taken it on. Decades of Presidents haven't.

Decades. Hanging chads were just the culmination. In 1998 we had buttons that said "I voted, I think" in some counties. I was shocked, and coming from Louisiana to say I was shocked by voting practices?

THAT is saying a hell of a lot.

Florida is about like that woman in Wisconsin Kathy Nikolaus having a headlock on voting and subverting the process, except she's one county (though admittedly, she's thrown the vote enough that it doesn't matter). Florida has a whole state full of people like her.

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Attorney General Holder's Challenge to Florida's Voter Purge is a Shot Across the Bow [View all] bigtree Jun 2012 OP

kick bigtree Jun 2012 #1

what's a recommend without a KICK!!!! spanone Jun 2012 #2

Now we are talking! Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #3

The Feds want to know why Florida is breaking a Federal law? LOL! Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #4

the feds know very well what's going on in Florida bigtree Jun 2012 #5

No offense, but it's about effing time. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #6

you think he could challenge their new regulation before they enacted it? bigtree Jun 2012 #7

I'm being more general than the Voter's Act. Or this particular situation. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #8

what? bigtree Jun 2012 #9

For crying out loud. This has been going on much longer than Obama has been in office. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #12

not this DOJ, Baitball bigtree Jun 2012 #13

I'm glad you feel that way. I'm glad you think things are improving because of the new leadership. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #14

I think you are missing the poster's point Aerows Jun 2012 #28

baitball bigtree DonCoquixote Jun 2012 #15

Right on both counts. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #23

thanks, that's why DonCoquixote Jun 2012 #25

YOu have no idea the level of corruption that goes on in this state. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #26

Dude DonCoquixote Jun 2012 #27

Florida: It is us and we are fucked. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #29

Hopefully you got the message Aerows Jun 2012 #30

Now that a Federal Judge has ruled, Obama can send in the 82nd Airborne if coalition_unwilling Jun 2012 #10

K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2012 #11

The Fourteenth Amendment girty Jun 2012 #16

Are you defending Florida here - TBF Jun 2012 #22

well, you know bigtree Jun 2012 #24

shot across the stern lol. how long as AG? Obama's been prez 3+ yrs nt msongs Jun 2012 #17

Oh, yeah! Smackdown time! Zorra Jun 2012 #18

It's going to take more than a "...shot across the bow" to stop the steamrolling effort to give ladjf Jun 2012 #19

Florda looks to be pushing back a bit bigtree Jun 2012 #20

I hope that you are exactly correct in your opinions. nt ladjf Jun 2012 #21

FL voting Aerows Jun 2012 #31