Shrinking Early Vote Deadline Brings Chaos to the State of Florida
Real chaos persists today in Florida State as the Presidential Election date nears and thousands have been unable to profit with the early vote ahead of the deadline, reports NBC Network.
The crisis provides a picture of how politics still hurts the elections in this territory 12 years past the scandal over the ballot count of the year 2000 when 500 votes gave Rep. George W. Bush the victory on Albert Gore, reminds NBC.
Things grew worse with the early Sunday Democratic demand -at the District Court due to reports of irregularities and the average 45 minute needed to fill each form- urging to extend the early poll’s deadline, either in persona or through absentee suffrage.
The main accused was Florida State Secretary Ken Detzner and the elections supervisors in Broward, Miami Dade and West Palm Beach counties.
Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Jimenez ordered closing the voting offices Sunday while hundreds of voters demanded viva voce to let them vote.
The elections officials said they were overwhelmed with the crowd but reopened the doors later on through the pressure of the demonstrators.
The local Legislators, Republicans mostly, reduced the voting deadline from 14 to eight days, especially affecting African Americans and Latinos who have used early vote the most, either in person or mail.
These extraordinary lines have made the Floridans stand for hours to be able to vote, says the Democrat suit and in many cases many left without even voting.
Election officials said in Miami they opted for early voting in person Sunday but they spoke out after the Democrats complained in Court.
New Dutch Government Starts in Middle of Criticism
The members of the new Dutch government, formed by Liberals and members of the Labour Party, swore their respective posts in, in the middle of a growing criticism to a plan to save 16 billion euros in four years.
The Liberal Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, formed a cabinet with seven ministers from his party, and six members of the Labour Party, who started their functions before Queen Beatrice, in a public ceremony broadcast by TV and Internet, for the first time in the history of the nation.
At the end of October, the new Dutch Executive announced the application of additional budget adjustments until 2017, which has generated a great polemics in the middle class.
With that measure, the new government wants the public deficit to be located in 1.7 percent of the Gross Domestic Product in four years, under the 3 percent stipulated by the European Union and the 4.7 percent with which it concluded in 2011.
One of the most criticized parts of the plan is that the health insurance bonuses will be calculated according to the people’s incomes, what has caused dismay between traditional rich people and the middle class.
According to the newspapers De Telegraaf and Algemeen Dagblad, the usual beginning of a new Cabinet is darkened by the widespread anger on the health insurance of health, a problem that threatens the government’s stability before being sworn in.
On the other hand, Rutte’s liberals -he repeats as first minister- agreed next to the members of the Labour Party that jubilation age ascends to 66 years in 2018, and to 67 in 2021, as another of the measures to face the regional economic crisis.
The Executive estimates that the purchasing power of the lowest wages will ascend lightly in the next four years, while that of the people with more revenues will diminish down to four percent.
However, several experts question this expectation, because they consider that some families will reduce their purchasing power down to 20 percent, as a consequence of the new distribution of the sanitary contributions.
The liberals were the winners in the carried out prematurily general elections in September, after a discrepancy on the reduction of the public deficit caused the resignation of Mark Rutte’s minority government in April.
In spite of the victory, the Party of the People for Freedom and Democracy needed to form a coalition with the Labour Party, because alone it only obtained 41 legislative benches and needed 75 seats of a Parliament of 150 to be able to govern.
Sandinista Front Wins Municipal Elections by Landslide in Nicaragua
With 56.22 percent of the votes counted, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) has obtained victory in 134 of the 153 city halls in Nicaragua, announced the Electoral Supreme Council (ESC) of this Central American country on Monday.
ESC President Roberto Rivas announced in a press conference the first provisional-preliminary results of the municipal elections held on Sunday and said that another report will be given late this morning.
The Independent Liberal Party obtained second place with their victory in the other 26 city halls, said Rivas.
The ESC president congratulated the people for their participation in the elections, in which 57 percent of the population voted in a peaceful and organized climate,.
Over 6,000 mayors, deputy mayors, and city councillors were elected for the 153 municipalities, among more than 31,000 candidates representing opposition parties.
Via PL