Guarding polls
This from the Miami Herald.
Statewide, about 5,200 attorneys, law students and other volunteers will be poll watchers for Obama's legal team. Poll watchers are registered voters assigned to observe election activity inside the polling station. They cannot interact with voters.
In Miami-Dade, which has 764 polls, Democratic observers number about 450. They will focus on what key members call ''voter protection'' in minority, elderly and traditionally strong Democratic precincts.
According to a Miami Herald computer analysis of precinct designations, the Democrats are devoting two-thirds of their poll watchers to precincts where less than 25 percent of the voters are black.
Their observers include immigration lawyer Ira Kurzban, lawyer and former Orange Bowl Committee president Albert Dotson Jr. and Miami-Dade prosecutor Abe Laeser.
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