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EYE ON MIAMI

• Bruce Matheson on the Tennis Center Expansion Question of the Ballot. By Geniusofdespair

  
  • Florida law requires that notice of a referendum proposal must be “clear and unambiguous,” cannot “fly under false colors” or “hide the ball as to its true effect.”
  
  • Why haven’t any actual plans or specifications for this massive development ever been provided to the public? [...]
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• Early Voting October 28th. By Geniusofdespair

  The voting turnout appeared lighter than Saturday on Sunday. The line was about 2 hours long when I was there about 1pm. Yesterday's line got up to 4 hours.
  
  Anyway, I decided to do a video today of voters talking to me about the election or anything else.  Well [...]
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• Gimleteye: Florida ringed by pollution ... do voters care?

  From Naples Daily News
  
  David Guest, Tallahassee
  Attorney, Earthjustice
  
  See what we get?
  
  Here we go again: Hundreds of rotting, stinking dead fish are washing up on Southwest Florida beaches from a massive red tide outbreak. Tourists and residents are being warned to stay away from [...]
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• Absentee Ballots: Watch your penmanship! By Geniusofdespair

  In the 2012 Primary Election, the Canvassing Board rejected 307 ballots based on signature not matching. We can't even write our own names correctly in Florida!
  
  That number of thrown out ballots could change an election!  Link to our election endorsements.
  
  Vote NO on Miami Dade' [...]
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• Early Voting In Aventura, Florida 10/27. By Geniusofdespair

  Hit on the photo to see it enlarged.
  People at the front of the line about 2:30pm said they had waited about 3 hours. The line doubled back behind the building and made a U near the door. You are looking at two lines, one is against the building.
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• Response to radical GOP extremists

  "You Don't Own Me" PSA from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo.

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• Gimleteye: Miami Herald endorses President Obama

  President Obama is endorsed by The Miami Herald. The Herald and blogs like ours point out certain facts that the Obama campaign cannot. For example, President Obama can't run against Congress and he can't run against the miserable circumstances that drag on jobs and the economy.
  
  Romney can [...]
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• My Signature on the Absentee Ballot. By Geniusofdespair

  I was on my way to the post office with my absentee ballot.  On the way out the door I took out my license and compared it to the signature on the ballot.  It was clearly different. Was it different enough for them to toss it? Maybe.
  
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• Observations on the November election ... by gimleteye

  
  On PBS Nova I watched a documentary about a Stone Age man extracted from the melting ice of a glacier. Survival, more than five thousand years ago, took a considerable amount of organization and skill. I wonder if all the accomplishments that carried humankind to the 21st century [...]
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• US Century Bank: Here is how you can complain to the federal government about the special treatment afforded US Century Bank, Miami-Dade's insider piggy bank

  It's not right for US Century Bank, Ramon Rasco, Sergio Pino or its successors to walk away from repaying $50 million it owes federal taxpayers. Especially, when some current bank shareholders could emerge as shareholders of the new bank, C1 Bank. When you write your complaint, please send a copy [...]
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