Republican Americans should feel ashamed

[ejbr]

You are turning us into an international laughingstock with your bullshit!

Guardian UK

Florida Republicans impinging on right to vote, say Democrats
State's Democrats file lawsuit to keep polling places open as voter anger grows

Chris McGreal in Tampa
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guardian.co.uk, Sunday 4 November 2012 18.07 EST


Florida Democrats have accused the swing state's Republican leadership of impinging on the fundamental rights of Americans amid growing voter anger at lengthy queues to vote, the shutting down of early voting and chaos in Miami over absentee ballots.

The state's Democratic party filed a lawsuit on Sunday to keep polling places open until election day as the Republicans stood accused of attempting to disenfranchise its opponents with new limits on early voting that contributed to waits of more than seven hours to cast ballots in Democratic strongholds such as Miami.

The Miami-Dade elections headquarters shut it doors on Sunday to people attempting to request absentee ballots because so many people showed up. Outside, would-be voters protested, shouting: "Let us vote".

Myrna Peralta, who waited with her four-year-old grandson for nearly two hours before being turned away, told the Miami Herald: "This is America, not a third-world country … They're not letting people vote."

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. You Can't Expect These Cockroaches, Vermin, Maggots And POS To Be Ashamed Of -----

anything.

[teddy51]

2. Great OP, and absolutely true. We have now stooped to the level of a

third rate country when a party thinks that they can steal an election by shutting down the vote.

[Beartracks]

3. But they HAVE no shame.

They won't be happy until you're required to show a FOX-issued ID at the polling place.

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[defacto7]

4. I know we are a laughing stock...

I communicate with Europeans all the time. But they are aware of the dichotomy in the US right now. In my conversations with German, French and Dutch associates, Obama is thought of in very high regard.