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TexasTowelie

(112,185 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 06:16 PM Oct 2019

Florida Democrats focus on voter registration as most critical need for 2020

If Florida Democrats could sum up the state party’s early 2020 strategy in three words, they would be registration, registration, registration.

During the party’s convention this weekend in Orlando, leaders stressed they have fixed past errors in their voter-registration strategy and are busy building a more Democratic-friendly electorate more than a year from Election Day.

“I think we are going to win by putting our head down and doing the work,” said Juan Peñalosa, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party.

“What we have done in the past is starting too late. … We haven’t built the electorate in time for the election,” he added.

Read more: https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/10/13/florida-democrats-focus-on-voter-registration-as-most-critical-need-for-2020

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Florida Democrats focus on voter registration as most critical need for 2020 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP
You could register my pet schnauzer in Florida and it would not matter.... Sancho Oct 2019 #1

Sancho

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1. You could register my pet schnauzer in Florida and it would not matter....
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 06:25 PM
Oct 2019

because since 2000 the DREs are hacked, the mail-in ballots sit in a warehouse undelivered, and chads hang up.

They don't count the votes that are cast, so it doesn't matter who is registered.

The state is gerrymandered, the polls are run by GOP operatives, and the election supervisors are crooks.

Other than that, a registration strategy is a good idea!

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