# How the pubbies pad the roles in Fla.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020 "2004-07-27T00:46:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020/21 "2004-07-27T11:03:00Z")

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Oh, be nice. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020/22 "2004-07-27T11:39:50Z")

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Be sane. Be honest. Be _somewhere else_. 🙂

You fucking loon. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020/23 "2004-07-27T12:58:34Z")

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> [@rjung](#):
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> “New voter registration data released today showed an astonishing increase in the number of registered Republicans. Republicans in the Florida legislature touted the news as an impetus for drafting new redistricting maps, a move immediately decried as ‘jerrymandering’ from the Democrats.”

[nitpick]  
_Gerrymandering_. [Elbridge Gerry](http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa030199.htm).  
[/nitpick]

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020/24 "2004-07-27T15:53:31Z")

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Is it possible that the Pubbies in Florida were hoping to manipulate naiive and politically unsavvy immigrants into believing that they _had_ to vote Republican? Some of them don’t even understand English very well, much less the American political system. If they’re coming from Cuba, it could very well be that some of them would assume that they were _expected_ to vote Republican. They might not really get that the right to vote does not have quotation marks around it.  
It could also be that the Pubs were hoping to artificially inflate it’s new registration numbers in order to give the (false) impression that there is some sort of ground swell move towards the GOP in Florida.

Florida is going to be a very key state again. GWB came very close to winning it the last time and the Pubs are doing whatever they can to him over the top this time tme around.

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-pubbies-pad-the-roles-in-fla/257020/25 "2004-07-27T18:39:14Z")

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Most likely it was an over-zealous registrar who thought (s)he was doing a good thing for the Republican party. My mother, who is on the Board of Elections has run across this sort of thing for both sides.

Is it wrong?  
Yes.

Is it an attempt to currupt the system?  
Yes.

Are the Republicans the only ones doing it?  
No.

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