Looking To November, Florida Election Officials Issue Warning

Florida election officials sent an urgent letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) Tuesday, warning of the many issues a sustained or reborn coronavirus outbreak could cause for the November election.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1302401

DeSantis will be listening to his master’s voice, like the little Bichon Frise, he is.

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Ya right , This is Florida with a Republican Supermajority
They live for voting problems
They have no interest in Democracy or people voting
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DeSantis wants as much confusion as possible to continue the great tradition of Florida fucked up elections.

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When this is over, we will have all lost someone we know.

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Here’s where leadership comes into play in a democracy. It’s obvious there are technical means for doing mail-in voting, such as by having everyone confirm their mailed-in vote via a web-site or phone call, for example. People like DeSantis have drunk the cool-aid, however, so they view their job as being one of minimizing votes, not maximizing voting. We’ll see how all this plays out, but it’s important for there to be a really excellent airing of the alternatives to business as usual, so that DeSantis can be shown there’s a serious downside to obstructing progress in this regard.

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Now you know why they want you to think this will only last 30 days. Moving goal posts…

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How obstructive are Florida’s absentee ballot rules?
Does the local election board get to decide whether your request is "justified " ?

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Listen to that language: “sooner rather than later”; “must be quickly forgotten”; “perhaps like never before.” This is the voice of someone who knows his shot at re-election hangs by the slenderest of threads. “We MUST forget (sotto voce: my abject failure as a leader)–you hear?!?”

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She called for more accommodating absentee ballot regulations [and] that early voting polling places should be kept open on Election Day.

There’s a couple of non-starters. I’m sure the good gov will take Jones’ suggestions under advisement (and put them in the circular file stat).

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I had to go check twitter to see if this was real…

He’s literally Hitler reimbodied, no sense of any humanity about him at all.

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There is a solution for folks who don’t want to be disenfranchised:

File NOW for an absentee ballot for November. Don’t wait. Don’t think maybe it’ll be better later.

File.

Now.

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This sort of pie-in-the-sky blathering is all he has left. Nothing he was counting on to help him in the general election exists anymore.

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I will never forget the evil incompetence … I suspect I’m not alone.

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He probably thinks this makes him sound like Churchill.

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And “COUNYRY” - for Christ’s sake.

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You know someone had to remind him to add that “loved one” line - or of course added it for him.

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I think President Trump will appoint himself as acting president and cancel the election this year. How long will this last? We will have to just wait and see. I am sure Acting president Trump will have everything under control.