{"id":2326,"date":"2004-08-13T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2326.html"},"modified":"2004-08-13T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T14:30:07","slug":"at-least-it-wasnt-a-butterfly-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/at-least-it-wasnt-a-butterfly-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"At least it wasn&#8217;t a butterfly ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Florida wants to redeem itself and demonstrate that it isn&#8217;t an embarrassment to democracy, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2004\/08\/12\/s6b_absentees_0812.html\">off to a really bad start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>A Florida law that took effect July 1 eliminates the requirement that a witness sign an absentee voter&#8217;s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said she and other elections employees didn&#8217;t notice that a paragraph of instructions on the return envelope for the ballot included a sentence stating that &#8220;failure to sign this certificate and have my signature property (sic) witnessed will invalidate my ballot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right; they&#8217;re giving 22,000 largely-Democratic voters in Palm Beach false information about how to register their votes&#8230;and they can&#8217;t spell &#8220;properly&#8221; correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Florida wants to redeem itself and demonstrate that it isn&#8217;t an embarrassment to democracy, it&#8217;s off to a really bad start. About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won&#8217;t count. A Florida law that took effect July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}