I FUCKING HATE THESE PEOPLE.
Tea Party Group Blocks Florida Voters, Stops Water Handouts at PollsBrentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch 2012
The Nation
November 5, 2012 - 12:11 PM ET
Tea Party activists in Florida’s largely black and electorally significant Interstate 4 corridor have worked furiously to put a damper on what has been a record-setting turnout thus far. In one of the most striking examples of voter suppression to emerge, Voting Rights Watch obtained a list of several dozen Hillsborough County voters who will be surprised to learn they cannot vote regular ballots thanks to last-minute challenges filed against them.
I’ve requested similar information from Miami-Dade, Orange, Pinellas and Seminole counties, but officials have not responded. A spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s Office, Chris Cate, said the state does not track voter challenges, so there is no way of knowing how widespread these sorts of challenges may be.
In Hillsborough County, seventy-seven people—forty of them in Tampa—won’t be able to file a regular ballot because the True the Vote–affiliated group Tampa Vote Fair has challenged their voting status. Of those, sixty-eight have been challenged because Tampa Vote Fair asserts they are ineligible due to a felony conviction. These people will not know that their vote has been challenged until they reach the polls and are forced to cast a provisional ballot. (Some of them may have already attempted to vote during the early voting period.)
According to documents provided to Voting Rights Watch by Hillsborough County Attorney’s office, all seventy-seven of the voter challenges were filed by Kimberly Kelley, Tampa Vote Fair’s president, and all are dated October 16, 2012—a full week after voter registration ended in Florida. Earlier this year, Kelley sent to the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections multiple lists of people she suspected were ineligible to vote because of felony convictions. One of those lists had 1,375 names on it, which the county supervisor forwarded on to the state to investigate, but which turned up no names yet of people improperly registered.
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It IS a BIG Effing DEAL!
are we doing about it?
but fucksticks is a good start 
Only one answer for that! Another drink!
extremely evil.
of the above in triplicate.
They really are evil assholes.
I'd have a hard time holding back if I were in that line.
Jeebus.
Now I'm mad as hell too!
Where else could she have gotten such a list of names?
And the timing makes it all highly suspicious.
or Chicago/Union "thugs"? 
Shouldn't they be at the polling places to make sure that this crap isn't happening?? There should be Dem lawyers and party representatives at these large, troubled polling places! Also, why aren't they there, making sure that these poor people have food and drink? Everyone knows about the long lines and people waiting for hours! What the HELL???
Found a photo of her.
"A Lithia-based woman named Kimberly Kelley leads Tampa Vote Fair. The group is a local affiliate of True the Vote, a controversial Houston-based group that has been accused of harassing voters at the polls, though they have never been charged with any illegal activity.
Although a member of 9.12 (a Glenn Beck-inspired, Tea Party-esque organization), ...."
http://cltampa.com/tampa/the-urge-to-purge/Content?oid=3445398&storyPage=2#.UJmJPcXR6So
9.12
http://www.meetup.com/tampa912/
http://www.the912project.us/
I do HOPE that Florida Democrats work HARD to elect a Democratic Governor next time.
PA & Ohio both have ReThug Governors, but since 2000, Florida consistently seems to come up
extra sleazy, for some reason. 
I'd like to catch her ass in dark alley.
