Please call your favorite County Commissioner and ask them to support it. I expect it will go into Committee next so it will have a public hearing then - not at this meeting. If you want to weight in, in favor of it, to ALL the county commissioners -- ask these two entities to distribute your comments:
clerkbcc@miamidade.gov
officeofthechair@miamidade.gov
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TO BE HEARD 1st reading October 18th
4D 112056 Ordinance
Rebeca Sosa, Prime Sponsor
ORDINANCE REGARDING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; AMENDING SECTION 12-4 OF THE CODE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, ADDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATING LIMITS ON PICKING UP AND/OR RETURNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY, INCLUSION IN THE CODE, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE
In other words, no one can pick up and/or return an Absentee Ballot without a host of requirements on their part or they open themselves up for a fine and jail time. The important thing to me is NO ONE CAN PICK UP AN ABSENTEE BALLOT. That is what is going on now -- ballots are routinely picked up by campaign workers with none of the paperwork required.
8 comments:
This is an excellent start if an enforcement mechanism exists. If not, consultants will just create a new layer of insulation from the brokers with a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Once they make the first arrest, the consultants will cringe. If not, it will be the same old story.
Anon
You are absolutely correct. Must have jail time attached to this. Otherwise, its business as usual.
I expect to see violators on the prep walk or on the local tv channels at 6pm in the evening. Unless its that business as usual. It also applies to the people that run the Assisted Living Facilities. Any place that has a history of abnormal collection of ballots.
Bookem Dano!!!!!!!
Can't wait to see who will be lobbying against this one. Just read that hedge fund trader got 11 years for insider trading. It wouldn't take too many criminal prosecutions to solve the absentee ballot abuses now, wouldn't it?
Oh, the innocence… A real win! Right? Maybe not. Let’s see. These “no good commissioners” come out as reformers and political consultants can now charge more money for their services. Nice! Let me save you some time on the criticism that my comment will generate. It’s a start, we have to start somewhere… oh why so negative, what a sour pose, bla, bla, bla
Putz.
Thank you Commissioner Sousa. This has been too long in coming. Let's hope elections and FDLE can make it work.
This will really make a difference in this community. It's a good outlet for your advocacy, and everyone should be behind it regardless of their political affiliation.
GENIUS - Now I know why you are called the Genius! Good job! The good people of Miami-Dade should be on their knees thanking you for all the hard work you did on this one. And I know it was hard work.
The language in the resolution is good and tight and the penalty is good also. If it is ignored, we can always amend it to tighten it some more and make the penalities stronger.
I know I will be at the hearing, and we need to pack the room to show our support and send a strong message that we will not take this any more, not only to the Commissioners and Mayor, but to the residents of the County as well.
Count on me! I will be with you every step of the way.
It will be interesting to see which commissioners take issue with it.
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