Florida was in the spotlight again on yet another election day with long lines for voters and the last to complete vote counting. This has led some Democratic lawmakers, liberal activists and unions to call for election reform – and quickly – threatening legal action if necessary.
“We are calling upon the state to move very quickly and not to continue to undermine our democracy by cutting off the participation of Florida voters,” said Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of civil rights group Advancement Project.
While Gov. Rick Scott and legislative leaders have said they will look into the problems, no commitments have been made for specific changes.
“I’m concerned about the fact that we can’t seem to be able to count votes in the state of Florida,” incoming House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said in a radio interview last week. “We’re the 27th-largest economy in the world and we can’t count votes.”
The activist groups are seeking changes to the state’s early voting practices and provisional ballot guidelines. Other groups are planning to join the call to action, including the Florida League of Women Voters, who has a press conference scheduled Tuesday.
Read more of the Herald-Tribune report here.
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It’s ironic that the leftists are the ones calling for election reforms, yet the instances vote counting irregularities seem to come from …. you guessed it… Democrat supervisors of elections. I guess instances of like in St Lucie County where they somehow managed a 141% turnout, just aren’t good enough for them. It’s obvious to anyone paying attention that all this from the left is more of the same effort to make sure it’s as easy as possible to commit fraud. Hell, even the UN observers that somehow were invited to watch our elections were reported to have expressed amazement about how lax our voting requirements are with respect to showing ID. ANYONE who opposes having to show photo ID to vote is doing so for ONE reason only… and that’s to facilitate fraud. Period, end of story.
All that aside, I have a question that also occurred to me when I was voting. One of the demands mentioned in the article is related to making sure ballots and such are available in languages other the English. I find that ridiculous… if you’re an American citizen you damned well better be able to speak the language well enough to vote!
I’d support a law that requires ballots to ONLY be printed in English. In fact, I’d support a requirement that in order to become an U.S. citizen, an applicant must pass a basic English exam. I don’t know any other country on the planet that is stupid enough to provide all these absurd accommodations to immigrants. If people can’t even speak enough English to read and understand a ballot, they have no damned business voting.