ACLU Sues Over Late Absentee Ballots

[Bossy Monkey]

Nov 2, 8:14 PM EST

ACLU Sues Over Late Absentee Ballots

By TIM REYNOLDS
Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) -- Absentee ballots mailed by Florida elections supervisors too late for possibly thousands of voters to return them on time should still count, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The suit, filed against Secretary of State Glenda Hood and elections supervisors in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, asks that completed absentee ballots mailed in the United States that arrive at county offices before Nov. 12 be counted. State law required those ballots to reach county offices by Tuesday night.

The Nov. 12 deadline would be the same standard applied to absentee ballots filed by voters who are out of the country.

"These are not people who filed their request for an absentee ballot late," said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida. "These are people who filed it well in advance of the deadline and some of them just got their absentee ballot (Tuesday) - effectively preventing them from participating in today's election."

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[Catfight]

1. I'dlike to be apart of that lawsuit, I never got mine. n/t

[baby_bear]

2. Did you vote at your precinct then, Catfight?

I realize many people who apply for absentees can't get to the polls. So I support this lawsuit. I just hope you were able to vote.


s_m

[Catfight]

3. Yes, after promising my first born, giving a pint of blood, calling the

election office, signing a waiver, I finally got to vote.

[PATRICK]

4. Be nice if that at all made up

for their enthusiastic enablement of BBV. Good people have been such utter fools.