Wow! What is going on with Florida elections? The FEC is busy fining.

[madfloridian]

Here are some articles I found just from this last little bit, some even from the last two days. There must be some good investigatin' going on here. I know it won't be enough, though, but it is interesting for sure! I saw one of these at DU today, but not the others.

State Election System under Scrutiny Again.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA135RSUJD.html

Memo to 268, Your Vote did not Count
From Miami Herald
http://tinyurl.com/lco8

"Puh lease! The Mayor Should Know Better"
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/6623739.htm
SNIP...."If indeed he did allow his campaign to submit reports with missing
information about his contributors, it's not good enough to claim that they
tried real hard and it was all so last minute. How unoriginal. What
candidate for office hasn't found it difficult and inconvenient to track
down the specifics on the sources of money? If you can't nail down the
source, you don't take the money....."

Commissioner fined for voting violations
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/082703/tp5np3.htm?date=082703&story=tp5np3.htm

Fine Casts doubt on Sheriff's Political Future
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/082703/tp3ch21.htm?date=082703&story=tp3ch21.htm

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/081403/Local/ST001.shtml
Escambia Commissioner calls election charges unfair.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

If they've finally decided to come down hard on these infractions, it's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Florida's good ole boy way of doing things, especially when it came to local elections, left you to conclude one of two things: Either the local & state elections are run by terribly incompetent or terribly corrupt individuals. Either way, enforcement could have gone a long way to end the problem, except that the enforcement process was a joke because the agency that is in charge of pursuing these cases is toothless. They just assume that when a local boy gets enough complaints behind him, the local boy just has to drop out of politics, and the case is no longer worth pursuing.

So, this is a nice turn of events.

[madfloridian]

2. Looks like the Florida Election Commission is checking folks out.

But this board is too busy bashing candidates to even care that perhaps something may be important here. To find this many recent articles is significant, I think.

Well, back to Dean is too tight, Kerry voted for the war, Kucinich yells, and I forget what Daschle did.

I tried alert on a few, but no one seems to think that bashing violates any rules.

I guess I just hoped someone would notice that the Florida Election Commission is mentioned in just about every article.

Thud like a rock.

[madfloridian]

3. "DEAN HATES DEMS!!!!!! " 56 responses. FL election fix only 1.

Just let it drop.

This wears me out. We have so much to do, and we could work together. There are too many disruptors.

[tlcandie]

4. ROFLMAO!!! The bashing sites .. are da pits :(

Hang in there!!!!

EDIT: You can almost look at responses ONLY and tell it is a bashing thread!

[hang a left]

5. I am so glad!!!!!!!!!

I am reading The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by Pallast. I had no freaking idea, how orchestrated and calculated the election stealing bastards were. It unbelievable to me!!!!!! How the hell did they get away with it?????????

[imwatchingem]

6. They had a lot of friends...

in very high places. Wait till you've read the whole thing and you'll really be tearing your hair out, while you're hanging over the toilet bowl. It's pretty frightening stuff.

[dutchdemocrat]

7. ahem...

[althecat]

8. This makes my eyes go funny!!!

[FlaGranny]

9. Yeah, the black dots

are only there if you're not looking at them. An appropriate illusion.