102-year-old Florida woman who waited hours to vote to join Michelle Obama for State of the Union
by Dara Kam | February 11th, 2013
Desiline Victor (Photo courtesy of Advancement Project)
Desiline Victor, a Haitian-born U.S. citizen and former Belle Glade farm worker, waited three hours to vote on Oct. 28 at a public library.
According to Advancement Project, the civil rights group that has worked with Victor and is bringing her to Washington, Victor waited in line for three hours at a Miami-Dade County public library on Oct. 28. After others standing in line with the elderly woman complained to Miami-Dade County election staff, she was told to come back later in the day when there wouldn’t be as long to wait and more Creole language assistance would be available. She cast her ballot later on her return trip to the early voting site.
“We know that thousands of American citizens were kept from casting their ballots because of long lines and other unacceptable barriers. In a democracy, we have a responsibility to keep voting free, fair and accessible with equal access to the ballot for all. These problems could be fixed with federal voting standards that include early voting, modernized registration and other measures that protect our right to vote. Currently, we have 13,000 different jurisdictions who run elections 13000 different ways,” said Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of Advancement Project.
Florida’s GOP-controlled legislature in 2011 shortened the state’s early voting period from 14 to eight days despite long lines in 2008 that prompted then-Gov. Charlie Crist to extend early voting hours. Gov. Rick Scott, who signed the bill (HB 1355) into law, now supports a flexible eight-to-14 day early voting period and leaving it up to the local supervisors to choose the number of days.
Tags: 2012 elections, Barack Obama, bnblogs, Desiline Victor, early voting, Rick Scott, The Advancement Project, voting, voting rights
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February 11th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
That day at Miami beach city hall and at Caleb center and at other EV sites there were zero lines.
February 12th, 2013 at 11:16 am
As a Republican, I have no problem saying her vote means less than those who are whiter and have more money. So I am not concerned with long wait times in poor areas.
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February 12th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
How about the fact that voters saw this 102yr old women in line and did not offer to help her to the front of the line. Also it was early voting there is a limited number of voting location because it is EARLY voting.
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