Whatever it takes
by digby
If you can't make early voting illegal, there's always a way to slow it down:
Authorities in Winter Park, Fla. have detonated a second suspicius package found near an early voting site on Saturday, a spokersperson for the Winter Park Public Library confirmed to TPM.
"They detonated it 15 minutes ago," Mary Gail Coffee said. "No update on what it was."
The lead poll worker at the site called police around noon on Saturday after an unattended lunch box of some kind was found near the polling site. Law enforcement officials brought police dogs and a robot capable of taking x-rays to the scene, but were unable to determine the contents of the first package, so they destroyed it in a controlled detonation. It is unclear where the second package was found. The library has been evacuated, and voting at the site suspended.
This doesn't specify if they turned out to be bombs or just "suspicious packages" or if they were planted there on purpose. If they were I'd say their work is done.
And to think Republicans are screaming bloody murder at the idea that we might need international observers of our broken election system. The fact that anyone would even suspect that bombs might be planted at election sites in the United States in 2012 says it all.
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