A visit to the polls this weekend revealed some promising signs for a Mitt Romney victory march, and a dismal view of Palm Beach County election officials’ planning for this election.
When the polls opened at the early voting site at Boca Raton City Hall at 7 a.m. on Saturday, there were no Obama supporters to encourage voters. Our “Romney/Hasner/Bodganoff” signs were the only ones on scene until hours later.
Throughout the day, we had five positive responses from voters for every two negative ones.
The overwhelming reaction we got was positive, with enthusiastic thumbs up and supportive comments,especially for our “OBAMA HATES ISRAEL” sign.
Mark Alan Siegel, the disgraced former chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party, seemed to be the Democratic official of choice on scene that day. Siegel recently stepped down from his post after claiming in an interview at the Democratic National Convention that Christians want Jews dead. And yet, Siegel still seems to be a heavy hitter in Democratic circles.
Early voting lines were long, with up to three hours waiting time. With all the problems associated with Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher, it appeared that the workers at the Boca polling place were overwhelmed by the turnout. Poor preparation for this blowout election by an extremely Democratic partisan such as Bucher is a real problem. Wasn’t she aware that this would be the election to beat all elections? Another major voting disaster looms over Palm Beach County.
With the weekend voting behind us, indications are that the coming week will see a record number of voters going to the polls for early voting. It behooves those who wish to see the removal of President Obama to get to the polls early, be patient and cast your votes. If you still have an absentee ballot, fill it out carefully and completely, sign the appropriate envelope and send it ASAP. Our kids’ futures hang in the balance.
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My only concern in this Florida election process is the ability for the Democrats to complain that votes weren’t counted right. It will be a crazy complaint considering that the only quirk reported was that Romney votes were coming out as Obama votes. The explanation that came out was not acceptable. They said it happens and they are all fixed. So how many actually went through wrong and not changed? If they were then show the proof. It amazes me because there were no machines that did the opposite. I hope that there are election workers from both parties to make sure the right votes are counted.
I don’t know how what you are reporting is happening. The ballot I got was a fill in the arrow ballet. After filling in the lines to who I was voting on, the ballot was then zeroxed. No hanging chads this time around. The board of elections for Florida, got it right!
After three days we were finally able to vote in St. Lucie County. Lines were out the door! ROMNEY 2012
After being told that I had a 3 to 4 hours wait at my community library, I decided to be smart & listen to the advice of helpful, uniformed guard. He suggested that I early vote at the African-American Library. The library had a very successful procedure to follow. When you entered the door, you were escorted to an auditorium & seated comfortably in certain rows. There was a popular movie playing, which was enjoyable & helped pass the time. After about 45 minutes, we were escorted out to the main room. With just a brief wait, we were checked in & told where to vote, which I did. There were plenty of helpful staff who were only too happy to instruct you or how to “feed” your 4-page ballot into the machine. I was the only caucasian person there. I think I must have been the first Republican they had ever seen. The whole experience was wonderful and took perhaps, a little over an hour. Other polling places could learn from the African-American Library, how to properly prepare for a large turnout.
I wish I coiuld say the same when we were on site in Weston at the library and in Pembroke Pines at the Southwest Regional Library. We encountered heavy Dem. voters and supporters. We were heavily outnumbered at both places on Sat. and Sun. but it did get much better on Mon. and today. However, we were stil outnumbered most of the time. However, we are going to win.We are going to the GOP event tomorrow and U of M and a big crowd is expected to see and hear Romney, Ryan, Jeb Bush, Mack and the Republican Team.
Alan…What amazing work you are doing in Florida…I love reading your reports. I thank you for your devotion to fighting for America’s freedom in the Jewish community. If Romney wins, you will hear me cheering all the way from Israel, along with most Israelis who truly see how dangerous a second Obama term will be for Democracy.
You have to be kidding me. The “Obama Hates Israel” sign is a perfect example of how willing some people are to shout their thoughtless ignorance to the public. You might just as well put up signs that say “Obama is a Socialist!”; “Obama is a Muslim”, “Obama Beats His Wife”, “Obama Hates White People”, “Obama Supports Death Panels”. Obama has been facing this nonsense for 6 years. It is orchestrated. It is incessant. It is shameful.
seazen, please document in a future post where Obama has ever SUPPORTED Isreal What a piece of crap, head in the sand poster you are.
seazen, here you go again… Actually, you summed that up right: all of the above signs are quite valid – thanks for reminding us about at least a fraction of what is wrong with the Beloved Leader you dumped on America. Well, only one of your suggestions is wrong: “Obama Beats His Wife” – no, he does not. Muchellya is probably good 20 pounds heavier than her skinny hubby and can herself beat him to a pulp (which she probably was willing to do after the first debate: dragging him from the stage sobbing and shaking
).
We went to vote yesterday at 6PM. It took until 8 for us to get into the building. They took 10people at a time. When we got into the room we realized the problem. They had 2 printers printing the ballots, only after you had signed in and they had entered you into their computer. One of these 2 printers was faulty and only one of the staff knew how to fix it. Why they could not have preprinted these ballots for the various districts, is something I thought was a major mistake. On Election Day they better have the ballots preprinted.
Talk about unprepared. 2 of the printers at the west Boca library Saturday morning were still printing the faulty ballots that were sent absentee. The scanners couldn’t read them and the chaos began. Throw in an incompetent technician and we had a problem that wasn’t fully resolved until after 11:00.
It took me only a total of 35 minutes to vote – For Omama the line was not that long (150 – 180 people) and it went fast..
Why – ask governor Christie (R) who now endorses President Obama…
Ryan bill could cut FEMA by 40% and Ronmey wants to move it to the States or Privatize FEMA.
Remember: Federal Government has a responsibility to protect all the American people in a national disaster no mater what!
Did Mayor Bloomberg decline Obama’s visit after Sandy?
It’s funny that Mr. Bergstein sees long lines at the polls as being reflective of poor planing on the part of PBC Supervisor of Elections, Susan Bucher, and not due to the fact that early voting time had been cut in half and Democrats are rocking the vote here in PBC for Obama!!!.
I’m a Democrat who has not supported Susan Bucher for unfairly firing an excellent SOE employee…but, I will confess, that on her watch, this election will not be a looming disaster; nor will it be stolen.
If it is not stolen then how the heck can Obama win?