Unsigned absentee ballots rejected in Broward; technical woes in Pembroke Pines
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Around Florida, voters have cast ballots despite breaking a leg, passing out and suffering a seizure.
In a game of top that, Mabel Rodriguez may have them beat.
Rodriguez, 44, arrived at Miami-Dade's election headquarters in Doral Tuesday morning. She held two things: an absentee ballot and a catheter bag.
“I literally just got out of the hospital,” she said.
Recent kidney surgery didn't stop Rodriguez from casting her ballot. She first headed to her precinct this morning, but was told absentee ballots had to be dropped off at headquarters (or at Miami-Dade's Government Center downtown). So Rodriguez made the drive to Doral, where a poll worker cut her a break and let her drop off her ballot without waiting.
At that point, the line to drop off absentee ballots looked long but only took about 10 minutes to get through. Rodriguez was on a tight schedule. Next stop: back to the hospital for treatment.
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PEMBROKE PINES, 10:30 a.m.
At Chapel Trail Elementary School in Pembroke Pines, the scanner for precinct 52 broke soon after the polls opened and some voters who showed up early ended up waiting three hours to vote.
“This was just horrible,” said Lindsay Shapiro. “I knew I was going to wait in line, but three hours?”
Shapiro, 28, said she voted in previous elections by absentee ballot or early voting, but this was her first time casting a ballot on Election Day at her polling place.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/06/3084088/polls-open-in-south-florida.html#storylink=cpy
