Tea Party Group Blocks Florida Voters, Stops Water Handouts at Polls

[Blackstar*]

Last Friday and Saturday, the last two official days of early voting, black voters and NAACP members were upset when Republican poll watchers challenged NAACP members for passing out water and offering chairs to voters standing in long lines in the hot sun.
Black voters have been turning out in record numbers, not only in Tampa but throughout the state. There are reports of people standing in line up to seven hours, many of them elderly and disabled—and at one Orlando site there was a bomb scare.
So NAACP members have been passing out water to help people deal with the heat. A Republican poll watcher reported this activity at the C. Blythe Andrews Jr. polling site in Tampa, a predominantly African-American district, and had the poll clerk stop the water distribution. According to NAACP political action chair Yvette Lewis, the Republican poll watcher accused the teams of bribing voters with the water, much like a challenge filed by a Republican poll watcher Sunday when helpers passed out fried fish.
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[kia027]

showing compassion to people in line by offering water is illegal?

[lonewolf]

Last Friday and Saturday, the last two official days of early voting, black voters and NAACP members were upset when Republican poll watchers challenged NAACP members for passing out water and offering chairs to voters standing in long lines in the hot sun.
Black voters have been turning out in record numbers, not only in Tampa but throughout the state. There are reports of people standing in line up to seven hours, many of them elderly and disabled—and at one Orlando site there was a bomb scare.
So NAACP members have been passing out water to help people deal with the heat. A Republican poll watcher reported this activity at the C. Blythe Andrews Jr. polling site in Tampa, a predominantly African-American district, and had the poll clerk stop the water distribution. According to NAACP political action chair Yvette Lewis, the Republican poll watcher accused the teams of bribing voters with the water, much like a challenge filed by a Republican poll watcher Sunday when helpers passed out fried fish.
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There is nothing in your post that states that these people were part of the "Tea party". It simply says Republicans, so your post is either fabricated or an out right lie, and it does not mention any one blocking voters.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

[mangoskin]

anyway, in his acceptance speech this a.m. President Obama says he will be changing those unconscionable long voter lines...I mean what is that all about? Looks like a 4th world country,

[kia027]

There is nothing in your post that states that these people were part of the "Tea party". It simply says Republicans, so your post is either fabricated or an out right lie, and it does not mention any one blocking voters.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Yes it is.. Read the source article. It discusses the actions of Tampa Vote Fair's Kimberly Kelly a tea party member

[remo]

Yes it is.. Read the source article. It discusses the actions of Tampa Vote Fair's Kimberly Kelly a tea party member

LoL...Read?
He knows how to cut and paste but to actually read an article..Good luck with that......

[Blackstar*]

LoL...Read?
He knows how to cut and paste but to actually read an article..Good luck with that......

Don't even have sense enough to follow a link and check.

[WitchyOoman]

Don't even have sense enough to follow a link and check.

Besides, the lines were just about equally long and miserably all over the country, and various Republican groups (esp. Tea Partiers) have been challenging similar such humanitarian acts all over the country likewise, so why would it be unbelievable in Florida, anyhow? Puh-lease!