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lilithsrevenge12

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:30 AM Oct 2012

Calling out every Amendment on the FL ballot this November. [View all]

The most important thing in this election is to get everyone to vote no on everything.


Intent of 11 ballot questions was to deceive
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO



Neither good intentions nor true desire for voter input placed the 11 state constitutional amendments on a crowded ballot headlined by a presidential election.

One clue: misleading and confusing language.

The overwhelmingly Republican Florida Legislature drafted them knowing that long lines at the polls are more likely to discourage working-class people from voting, among them women and minorities unable to take large chunks of time off.

In Miami-Dade, the ballot is 12 pages long; in Broward, eight pages front and back, except in Pembroke Pines where it’s nine.

Couple the daunting ballots with curtailed early voting — it was slashed almost in half from 15 to eight days and from two Sundays to one in Democratic-dominated Broward — and only the most committed will be able to endure the lines.

It’s all part of a well-orchestrated plan to manipulate this swing-vote state.

But here’s what people who have studied the amendments — members of organizations such as the nonpartisan League of Women Voters, who do want everyone to vote — recommend: Vote ‘No’ on all amendments.

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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/09/3042364/eleven-shades-of-no.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/09/3042364/eleven-shades-of-no.html#disqus_thread

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