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sisyphusshruggedboy, have I got an equivalence for you.
So hey, tens of thousands of voters from heavily Democratic counties aren't getting their absentee ballots because, in some cases, they weren't sent out by close of business on the Saturday before a Tuesday presidential election (and in other cases they very likely weren't sent at all - the post office says so), but to balance all that, not as many cuban-americans are voting as the Republicans had hoped for.
The mind boggles. It really does.
Chaotic handling of absentee ballots has turned Broward County -- a Democratic stronghold north of Miami that supporters of Sen. John F. Kerry believe could tip the election in their favor -- into a pre-election flash point. Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes -- who took over the job after Gov. Jeb Bush (R) removed the previous supervisor for botching an election -- blamed the post office for losing 58,000 absentee ballots. Later, she lowered the figure to 6,000.
Whatever the figure, U.S. Postal Service officials say they have done nothing wrong and are scrambling to get replacement ballots to voters. More than 2,400 replacement absentee ballots from Broward County and an additional 5,600 from the Democratic bastion of Palm Beach County -- many with out-of-state addresses -- were dropped off late Saturday, long after mail carriers were gone, a Postal Service spokesman said.
"There's no way in hell those people are going to get their ballots in a timely fashion," spokesman Gerry McKiernan said. "They should get their act together over there."
The absentee-ballot follies left Christina Bray, who has a home in Deerfield Beach, Fla., in tears after days of trying to get a ballot sent to her other home in Washington. "I feel like I live in a Third World country," said Bray, 57, a retired World Bank employee.
The Democrats' worries about absentee ballots in Broward and Palm Beach counties are countered by some GOP fretting in Miami, where the president's campaign wants a boost from Cuban American voters. Only half of the county's absentee ballots had been returned by Sunday afternoon, which Republicans said was far below the usual return rate.
So hey, tens of thousands of voters from heavily Democratic counties aren't getting their absentee ballots because, in some cases, they weren't sent out by close of business on the Saturday before a Tuesday presidential election (and in other cases they very likely weren't sent at all - the post office says so), but to balance all that, not as many cuban-americans are voting as the Republicans had hoped for.
The mind boggles. It really does.
