Democratic Election Official Rules All Restrooms In Dade County Closed On Election day

[red dog 1]

Jim Hightower
April 24, 2014

FLORIDA OFFICIAL CAN'T SEEM TO GET THE HANG OF RUNNING ELECTIONS


It's our civic duty to vote, right?....Well, that depends on who you are....The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don't want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their civil right.

In 2012, Florida's highest officials disgraced their offices by engaging in this thuggish electoral thievery.
Republican Governor Rick Scott and his party's legislative henchmen officially rammed voter suppression into law, targeting Latino, African-American, student, elderly and other likely-Democratic voters.
From purging such people from voting rolls to making them use broken-down voting machines, voters in Democratic-leaning precincts faced procedural chaos and up to six-hour-waits --deterring at least 200,000 Floridans from casting their ballots.

But now comes an added discouragement in Miami, where a ruling by a Democratic election official will literally leave voters p.o.'d.
Advocates for People with Disabilities had asked whether rest rooms in Miami-area polling places will be accessible to voters in wheelchairs or having other physical needs.
They expected to get "yes" for an answer, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act,
but instead they got this jaw-dropping shocker:
"In order to ensure that individuals with disabilities are not treated unfairly, the use of restrooms by the voters is not allowed on election day."

Yes, in a perverted twist of logic, "fairness" to people with special needs will be assured by treating everyone unfairly.
Thus, the political right to vote will be trumped by the biological need to pee -- especially if they wait in line six hours.

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[randys1]

1. Wake me when everybody has had enough

[LoisB]

15. Amen

[Niceguy1]

2. probably because

A lot of polling places arent public facilities. .like churches that may or may not be reauored to ba ADA compliant. Opening the facility up to the public for voting changes the status of the building and may require complaint facilities. If they dont offer restrooms then there arent any issues.

Another consequence of our litigious society. Ironically I just heard a report on the situation in CA where lawyers troll.businesses, usually minority businesses, for violations and sue them knowing that they will settle knowing that they dont have the money to fight it.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Flori-duh!

[Politicalboi]

4. They should use schools to vote at

We the people paid for those schools, why can't we use them to go vote. Or how about coming up with mobile vote buses for areas that have to travel over 5 miles to vote.

[yeoman6987]

13. They should use schools to vote at....we the people paid for those schools

Our kids are in those schools we paid for rightfully so. I would rather the kids be in school learning that day. Plus it would put a huge burden on families to have to figure out what to do with the kids when they go vote.....6 hours waiting with children? Not fun.

[Blue Owl]

5. Wear a diaper, then afterwards send it COD to Rick "Gollum" Scott

For extra fun, put "Dave Vitter" on the return address

[red dog 1]

9. I like that idea!

[yeoman6987]

14. And the Democrats who are making this rule

I just can't believe the DINOs in Florida. They certainly can't be liberal making rules like these.

[krispos42]

6. A couple of pickups...

....with porta-potties in them. Parked at the voting area. "Bathrooms denied by Rick Scott, Porta-Potties provided by the Democratic Party" signs on them.

Bring some portable steps so people can walk up to them.


PR victory!

[CottonBear]

7. There are HC accessible porta potties.

The FL Democratic party could rent some and place them near polling places.
However, in order to advertise that the toilet facility was provided by the Democratic Party, it would have to be a certain distance from the polling place.

[savalez]

11. Brilliant!

[Rhiannon12866]

8. This is just too bizarre to be true...

[red dog 1]

10. Don't forget, we're talking about Florida here.

[ancianita]

12. Still. The ADA says if disabled haven't facilities, they MUST build them. Where are the lawyers.

[red dog 1]

17. Excellent question.

[blkmusclmachine]

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