Signs ?

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A friend just called me asking if I knew anything about the signs going up along the highway stating " Stand up Florida".
Anybody know what this is about? :idontno:

[Smiling JOe]

By Richard Allen Greene (Full Story here) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3685968.stm)
BBC News Online in Tallahassee, Florida

"Excuse me, ma'am. Are you registered to vote?"

Jeremy Bled is spending seven weeks registering Florida voters

Jeremy Bled asks that question a lot these days - for an average of three or four hours every day, in fact.
He is one of the co-founders of Stand Up Florida, a non-partisan organisation dedicated to voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
The group targets predominantly African-American neighbourhoods outside the state capital Tallahassee - areas that saw a large number of ballots tossed out in the infamous 2000 election.
Mr Bled spent a recent Thursday afternoon in a low-income housing project in Gadsden county, just west of Tallahassee.
He said the county had the highest rate of ballot spoilage in Florida in 2000.

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Good for him, I guess you have to start somewhere ;-)

Thanks SJ

[TreeFrog]

[QUOTE=Smiling JOe;207758]The group targets predominantly African-American neighbourhoods outside the state capital Tallahassee - areas that saw a large number of ballots tossed out in the infamous 2000 election. /QUOTE]

Areas that would likely have voted heavily Democrat...

[Smiling JOe]

[quote=Smiling JOe;207758]The group targets predominantly African-American neighbourhoods outside the state capital Tallahassee - areas that saw a large number of ballots tossed out in the infamous 2000 election. /QUOTE]

Areas that would likely have voted heavily Democrat...You caught that, too. It is interesting he says it is non-partisan, then ... well, you can read more on the link.