New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line
What hogwash: how can this even be legal? 
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/10/3425252/new-rule-prohibits-voters-in-miami-dade-county-from-using-the-restroom-no-matter-how-long-the-line/
New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line
By Nicole Flatow on April 10, 2014 at 12:17 pm
South Floridians stand in line during the last day of early voting in Miami, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.
CREDIT: AP Photo/Alan Diaz
During the 2012 presidential election, voters reportedly waited on line for upwards of six hours. That wait alone is enough to deter would-be voters from going to the polls. But now residents in Florida’s most populous county will have another disincentive: they won’t be able to go to the bathroom.
Earlier this year, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department quietly implemented a policy to close the bathrooms at all polling facilities, according to disability rights lawyer Marc Dubin. Dubin said the policy change was in “direct response” to an inquiry to the Elections Department about whether they had assessed accessibility of polling place bathrooms to those with disabilities.
“I was expecting them to say either yes we have or yes we will,” Dubin said.
Instead, he received a written response announcing that the county would close all restrooms at polling places “to ensure that individuals with disabilities are not treated unfairly,” a January email stated. “[T]he Department’s policy is not to permit access to restrooms at polling sites on election days,” Assistant County Attorney Shanika Graves said in a Feb. 14 email. Elections Department officials did not immediately respond to ThinkProgress inquiries.
Dubin said he was “shocked” at this response, and not just because it suppresses the vote for everybody. The Americans with Disabilities Act also requires entities to make “reasonable accommodations” to those with disabilities. For those with a number of conditions, including diabetics and those taking diuretics, closing the restroom will make standing in that line impossible, and thus discriminate against disabled voters.
But those with disabilities are not the only ones who would suffer disproportionately from this policy. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis found that blacks and Hispanics waited almost twice as long to vote as whites in the 2012 presidential election. Another analysis found that this “time tax” also impacted young voters. And this would be one of a number Florida voter suppression policies that have a particular impact on the elderly.
The state’s next-most populous counties, Broward and Palm Beach, told the Sun Sentinel they would not implement this policy.
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without taking a leak.
Especially after this..
So because some poor slobs can't get out of a wheelchair to go pee we all have to suffer.
But wait..People with some actual color to their skin are not allowed to pee. But because I have NO color.. I can pee.. except now I can't because then people on crutches may be able to pee-- or not.. or...
OK my solution.. when this happens the next time,EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY, drop- trow and take a dump!!!
I don't think that's the kind of shit they need to worry about. 
There ought to be bathrooms, as well as handicapped ones available. But that is a secondary issue, in my opinion.
The line in that picture is outrageous! People shouldn't have to be there so long that the need for bathroom facilities becomes a significant issue.
They can't open more places to vote w/in their precincts? I bet that they can, but won't... Someone up-thread mentioned that this is a very blue county. While that may be so, whatever entity is in charge of the logistics is either highly incompetent, or (more likely) purposely trying to suppress the vote.
-Unless these kinds of lines are normal elsewhere? 
