Monday, October 04, 2004

Democracy in action

The Associated Press reported on October 1 that
[t]housands of Floridians who think they're registered to vote could be turned away at the polls Nov. 2 because their voter registration forms weren't completely filled out, officials said Friday.

Secretary of State Glenda Hood said some groups registering voters are turning in application forms with information missing, such as unchecked boxes asking whether applicants are citizens, mentally incompetent or felons.

A group that's been seeking copies of the incomplete applications in an effort to help people complete them said Hood's office, citing state law, has begun blocking them. ...

Hood said her office is only trying to help elections supervisors follow the law and that incomplete forms must be rejected.
Yep, that's it. Just trying to help out, just trying to follow the law.

Would this be the same Glenda Hood who earlier, in response to a suit about the lack of voter-verified receipts on the state's touchscreen voting machines,
published a "rule change" immunizing counties using touch-screen machines from the state law requiring hand recounts after close elections,
that is, telling them they were free to ignore the law?

No need to tell you among what sorts of populations the groups trying to register voters are working.

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