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With Hurricane Zeta expected to hit the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday, three counties in this conservative region will shorten their early voting hours, a move that could hurt the GOP.
Escambia, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties are all Republican strongholds, Politico reports, and are expected to easily go for President Trump. But Florida is a swing state, and Republicans have been counting on getting voters to cast their ballots early in person, as more Democrats are returning their ballots by mail.
In Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, early voting hours are normally from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but because of Zeta, the voting sites will close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday before reopening at 11 a.m. on Thursday, assuming there is no extensive damage caused by the storm. In Okaloosa County, early voting sites will close two hours early on Wednesday and open two hours later than normal on Thursday.
"It's an abundance of caution for us," Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections Paul Lux told Politico. "Hurricane Sally just in September weakened a bunch of trees and power lines, so we need to be careful, but I do think we will get back up and running quickly." Following Hurricane Michael in 2018, which hit the Panhandle a month before Election Day, then-Gov. Rick Scott (R) extended early voting hours.
https://news.yahoo.com/early-voting-sites-florida-gop-025304685.html
Maybe shit for brains will regret fucking with the mail?
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)durablend
(7,465 posts)Democrats have to stoop to unleashing a hurricane to depress turnout
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)(Whispers) don't tell anyone, but Hillary's emails caused this.
denbot
(9,901 posts)idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Good one!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Retrograde
(10,164 posts)so they can't guarantee absentee ballots get there in time. And too bad the GOP is asking courts to not allow ballots postmarked on election day but received later to be accepted. Who could have possibly foreseen bad weather in late October/early November?
(I know it's late for hurricanes, but that there global warming is just an Obama myth, right?)