Saturday, August 11, 2012

Zombie allusions: They just keep on coming-stuffing ballot boxes in Miami

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/08/cuidado-zombie-ballot-brokers-stalk-the-land.html


Cuidado! Zombie ballot-brokers stalk the land

"In Hialeah, zombies lurk behind the absentee ballots.
That is the caustic pre-recorded telephone message delivered this week to alert Hialeah voters about a boletera, or absentee-ballot bundler, who had gone around promoting the campaigns of Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Giménez and state Rep. Eddy González, R-Hialeah.
The satirical attack, playing off the gruesome "Causeway Cannibal" attack that occured in Miami on Memorial Day, shows how opponents of Giménez and González have taken advantage of the absentee-ballot scandal that erupted two weeks ago in Hialeah. Authorities have accused Deisy Pentón de Cabrera, 56, of forging the signature on an absentee ballot and collecting other people’s ballots. The candidates deny that she worked for their campaigns.
“In this election, Miami is living in times of zombies. Be careful, day or night you might receive an unexpected visitor,” a man’s voice intones in Spanish with musical drums in the background."

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/08/cuidado-zombie-ballot-brokers-stalk-the-land.html#storylink=cpy"

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