Clinton campaign chief: Florida should extend voter registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew

[teach1st]

Clinton campaign chief: Florida should extend voter registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew
The Buzz (Tampa Bay Times political blog), 10/6/16

Hillary Clinton's campaign chief said Thursday he hopes Florida will extend its deadline to give voters more days to register after Hurricane Matthew.

The voter roll is scheduled to close Tuesday. The storm has forced Democratic-leaning political groups to cancel planned drives over the next few days to sign up new voters.

"The one thing that we are hoping and expecting is that officials in Florida will adapt deadlines to account for the storm," campaign manager Robby Mook told reporters in a conference call. "Our hope would be that a little bit more time would be given for people that were expecting to get registered before the election."

Elections supervisors typically see a surge in voter interest right before the registration deadline.

[teach1st]

1. Rick Scott: "I'm not going to extend it."

Answer to reporter when asked about the Clinton campaign's request to extend the deadline, press conference from Tallahassee, 7:20ish pm, 10/6/16.

[Foggyhill]

2. That would be the correct thing todo, can't have that

Have that!

[royable]

4. I transcribed his blockheaded response:

"I'm not going to extend it. If you, if you... whether it's the registration date, you hadn't, everybody has had a lot of time to register, so, uh... On top of that, y'know, we've got lots of opportunities to vote, uh, early voting, abs'ee voting, and election day, so I don't intend to make any changes."

Having lots of voting opportunities don't mean much if you didn't get a chance to register because of an event like a...hurricane!

Question and answer is at 16:48 in the video.

[DonCoquixote]

3. I warned you

that Rick as going to do anything he could to hand this state to Trump. If Jax (very red) area is down, al will be done to get it up. If orlando (blue) is down, they will be sitting on their thumbs till 2019