I’m not able to confirm this with a Google News search, but voters in Fl are reporting that ballots evidently spilled out of the back of a truck and are just sitting in the road somewhere in Tampa. Again, I cannot confirm this, but I’m being told it was on the news this morning. Also, they’ve been setting up road blocks in some counties to make it difficult to get to the polls.
All of this is uncorroborated, but that’s what’s out there when I’m talking to people. And I mean, come on! This is Florida we’re talking about. That sort of thing wouldn’t happen there. Like Exile said last night, “And Boston isn’t really much of a college town.”
Reader MC reports in with the actual story from TampaBay.com. This turns out to be not ballots but voter information cards from some campaign or another. So, while this is an unfortunate breach of voter’s privacy, it appears to be niether a voter suppression tactic nor instigated by anyone in charge of counting votes.
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Please tone down the rhetoric. According to the Tampa Tribune, these papers were campaign materials that were lost by one of the parties. All of the information contained on the papers is public record and accessible by anyone.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/nov/03/031118/hillsborough-voter-records-found-scattered-along-i/news-politics/
There is no “rhetoric.” I’m reporting what I’m being told with the express statement that the reports are uncorroborated. Thank you for the link, though