Who needs election day? Negron locked up Senate win with absentee, early votes
by George Bennett | August 5th, 2009
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Republican Negron still would have won his special Senate election against Democrat Bill Ramos.
Ramos got 10,260 votes in the Senate District 28 race to replace retiring Ken Pruitt, according to unofficial returns. Negron piled up more votes than that from absentee ballots and early votes cast before the polls opened Tuesday.
Negron got 8,453 absentee votes and 908 early votes in Martin County. He got 1,666 absentees and 143 early votes in Indian River County. That’s 11,170 pre-Tuesday votes from those counties alone. Breakdowns from the three other counties in the district — Palm Beach, St. Lucie and Okeechobee — were not immediately available this morning.
Negron, who raised nearly $500,000 for his race, aggressively pursued absentee votes with a direct-mail campaign. Click here to read an overview of the election.
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August 5th, 2009 at 11:17 am
The State Legislature is becoming a House of Lords. We need campaign finance reform to level the playing field for all candidates. No more buying seats like Negron did.