Registration table clarification. What I found interesting is that a majority of the election officials making this decision are Democrats. I suppose it’s a “decent” compromise, it’s sure better than the absentee ballot mailing “solution” proposed earlier. Still, I wonder about those laws that require any campaign signs to be so many yards away form the polling place. Oh well, it’s Florida, so I suppose this is the best we can hope for.

By Michael C. Bender
Elections supervisors in Florida’s 16th Congressional District plan to post notices at polling places next month to inform voters of the change in Republican candidates as a result of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s resignation.

Supervisors in seven of the district’s eight counties agreed during a conference call to post notices at the registration tables of all polling locations to inform voters that ballots cast for Foley will count for Joe Negron.
The notice also will tell voters that a vote for Tim Mahoney, the Democratic candidate, will count for Mahoney and a vote for Emmie Ross, who is unaffiliated, will count for Ross.

Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson was not on the conference call and was unavailable for comment Wednesday. But he has said he would follow the opinion of Ron Labasky, attorney for the Florida State Supervisors of Elections Association.

Labasky made the recommendation Wednesday that the other supervisors adopted.

“I think this is the best step for everybody involved,” St. Lucie Elections Supervisor Gertrude Walker said.

“The supervisors want to be together in this decision, and we want to minimize confusion at the precincts,” Martin County Elections Supervisor Vicki Davis said.

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