Florida Court Disenfranchises Republicans
Big Dog at Big Dog's Weblog on Oct 19 2006 at 6:42 am | Filed under: Election 2006, Feature Article
Mark Foley resigned from congress and it was too late to take his name off the ballot. Under Florida law a replacement candidate may be selected and any vote for the person whose name appears on the ballot is a vote for the new candidate. Confused yet? Anyway, Foley’s name must stay on the ballot in Florida and Joe Negron will be credited with any votes cast for Foley. Negron had asked that a sign be placed at the polling places letting voters know that a vote for Foley was really a vote for him.
Democrats oppose this because they want to win the seat and they do not care how they do it. They want people to feel so disgusted about Foley that when they see his name they vote for whatever donk is running in the race. The Democrats won a victory when Florida Circuit Court Judge Janet Ferris ruled that the signs may not be placed. She stated that the legislature did not authorize them. What exactly does that mean? Does it mean they said it is not allowed or that they did not specifically allow it? Maybe they have not disallowed it either and it is just not addressed in the law. This Judge should provide a bit more data.
I have a problem with the Democratic party fighting to keep voters uninformed. They are deliberately disenfranchising Republican voters. This is the same group of people who believe that thousands of blacks were disenfranchised in Florida in 2000 because they happened to have their names removed from the voting rolls. Oh, and they were convicted felons. This group of morons will fight to keep Military members from voting and try everything to disenfranchise Republicans but they will cry and whine to the newspapers and broadcast media if a murderer does not get to cast a ballot.
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