Florida GOP wants to post notices for Foley replacement in polling places

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: Foley Ballot Notice Headed for Battle in Florida
By REUTERS
Published: October 5, 2006

MIAMI (Reuters) - The state that gave the world butterfly ballots and the hanging chad is headed for a new battle over whether and how voters should be told that disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley has dropped out of the Florida congressional race....

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Rules prohibit taking Foley's name off the ballot so close to the November 7 election. So the Republicans' replacement nominee, Joe Negron, asked election supervisors to post signs at the polls telling voters that ballots cast for Foley will actually go to Negron.

Democrats cried foul, contending that such a notice is tantamount to posting a partisan political advertisement inside voting stations, which is not allowed.

"What they're attempting to do is electioneering communications, which is illegal because you can't do that within 100 feet of a polling place,'' said Florida Democratic Party spokesman Mark Bubriski....

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"There's nothing in statute that requires a notice to be posted in the polling place and there's nothing in statute that precludes a supervisor from posting a notice in the polling place,'' said Sterling Ivey, a spokesman for the Florida Division of Elections. Florida's state government is currently in the hands of Republicans....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-foley-florida.html

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Dems are right, they are not suppose to do it, but probably will anyway.

The repubs love to cheat in the Sunshine state of Florida.

:kick:

[xxqqqzme]

2. In California, voters cannot wear

politically inspired T-shirts inside to vote. During the primary, we taped paper over a slogan on a shirt so the kid could vote.

[LeftyMom]

9. Interesting.

Here in Sacramento County the instruction that I've always got as a poll worker is that I'm to ask somebody to remove or cover up and electioneering material, but if they don't that I can't do anything about it unless it's obviously disruptive (leafleting or something rather than a shirt.) I had a girl come in back in '04 w/ a Kerry button on, I asked her to please take it off inside the polling place, explaining the rule about electioneering. She declined, that was the end of it. (FWIW, she was a teenager and there while her father voted and not then a voter herself.)

[BootinUp]

3. Back to the courts we go....n/t

[subterranean]

4. What if a voter still wants to vote for Foley?

I would not be surprised if a few people STILL wanted to vote for Foley despite his pedophilia scandal. Would they have to do a write-in??

[auburngrad82]

5. They should post Foley notices on Child Predator websites

Liberal bumper stickers

[BootinUp]

7. Creative thinking!

Send it in.

[POAS]

6. We, in Ohio, cannot even wear a candidate button or t-shirt

into the polling place.

Electioneering must be kept a minimum of 100 feet from the entrance.

[HuffleClaw]

8. 'here's some campaign posters!'

wink wink nudge nudge