From the state that brought you the hanging chad, now a new Republican crony Secretary of State is sweeping into action to block the Democratic process.
You see, Florida *law* says that because Mark Foley won his party's primary, his name must remain on the ballot despite his resignation; votes cast for Foley will be deemed votes for Joe Negron, the man chosen by Republicans to replace the disgraced pederast politician.
Yuk. Who would cast his vote for Foley, even if he knew it would be counted for someone who presumably didn't initiate cybersex with 16-year-old boys? That's exactly the conundrum faced by Florida Secretary of State Sue Cobb, a "major Republican contributor named to her post by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush".
How to get around such a sticky situation? Cobb's office is allowing county officials to post signs at the polls explaining that a vote for Foley is really a vote for a non-kid toucher. You know, in the interest of an educated electorate and all. Of course, there is the pesky matter of the existing law that says signs cannot be hung within 100 feet of a voting booth…
Salon, in its infinite wisdom, offers a compromise:
…we're sure that Negron won't mind if the Secretary of State's Office adds a few more things to its sign -- like, say, the fact that House Republicans knew about Foley's problems but didn't do much to stop him, that the Republican Congress has joined George W. Bush in turning a budget surplus into a massive federal deficit, that Saddam Hussein didn't really have any WMD and that Iraq didn't have anything to do with 9/11. As state GOP spokesman Jeff Sadosky says, "A more educated voter is a better voter."
Now who could argue with that? Except, of course, anyone who needs to hide the truth.
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