October 26, 2006
Democratic poll watchers outnumber Republican oberservers
By JAMES MILLER
Staff Writer
In the 2006 election, watchful eyes in Volusia County have a distinctive color -- Democratic blue.
Whether getting out the vote, guarding against trouble at the polls or -- as some Republicans say -- simply not getting over disastrous defeats in 2000 and 2004, Democratic poll watchers outnumber their Republican counterparts in Volusia County somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 1.
Volusia will have more Democratic poll watchers during early voting and on Election Day than much-larger Orange County will have altogether, and Flagler County will have none at all, according to records from those counties.
"Whoever gets out the vote will win," said Phil Giorno, chairman of the Volusia County Democratic Executive Committee. "That is our plan so we've lined up a lot of people to work on that plan."
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