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• Ballot-fraud probe embroils commissioner's aide, former Hialeah mayor's uncle

   A ballot-fraud investigation that has already troubled two top Miami-Dade political campaigns has now embroiled the office of a county commissioner and could result in the arrest of the uncle of Hialeah’s former mayor, The Miami Herald has learned.
  
  As part of the widening probe, police identified 164 absentee [...]

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• State releases 'obsolete' list of possible noncitizen voters

  It took weeks and weeks, but the state of Florida on Thursday finally released a list of 180,506 voters whose citizenship is in question, based on a cross-check of a database of Florida drivers. But state officials called the list "obsolete" and said they would not use it to "purge" anyone from the right to [...]

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• DOJ subpoenas Miami-Dade, 8 other counties in noncitizen voter purge

  The U.S. Department of Justice sent subpoenas to nine of Florida's county election supervisors, demanding extensive information as to how the counties may have sought to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls. The information must be provided by Wednesday, Aug. 15 -- the day after next week's statewide primary election.

  The biggest county, Miami-Dade, had [...]

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• Romney headed to Miami Monday as part of his swing state bus trip

  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will travel to Miami late Monday to end the third day of his swing state bus tour. He'll begin the day in St. Augustine, where he'll speak at a campaign rally at Flagler College. He'll then move to Orlando by mid-day and finish the day [...]

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• Connie Mack video response to Nelson ad: Senator's a "typical career politician wants to talk about Hooters and what I did as a kid."

  Sen. Bill Nelson's first negative ad against Rep. Connie Mack sure hit a nerve, and it provoked an interesting response: a web-ad rebuttal from the Republican. Conventional campaign wisdom says you shouldn't repeat an opponent's attack. But Mack does a solid job looking serious, sober and tough, thereby trying [...]

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• Race between Legg, Wallace and Korsak may not end Tuesday

  The three Republicans running for the Hillsborough-based state Senate District 17 could see their names moved to the November general election ballot open to Democratic and independent voters, according to a highly unusual scenario state officials have shared with local Democrats and one of the candidates.

  The rare decision to open [...]

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• 'Angry' Ozzie & 'Say-anything' Karen square off in brutal GOP battle to beat Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  WASHINGTON -- There's a wide field of Republicans hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who also serves as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, but so far, the candidates have spent more time bashing each other than the incumbent.

  “We've clearly got a spirited primary on our hands here,” [...]

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