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Florida Elections Officials Dealing With Long Lines
The Associated Press
Early voting began in Florida on Monday.
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Published: October 22, 2008
MIAMI - Elections supervisors are adding new equipment, updating Web sites with wait times and handing out fans and water to people standing in long early voting lines.
Lines were so long in Broward County on Monday that the last person cast their ballot at 10:20 p.m., hours after the polls closed.
Florida congressman Kendrick Meek protested what he called "excessive waits" at polling stations and said he was considering filing a lawsuit to have additional voting machines installed.
In the first two days of early voting, the Secretary of State's office reports that 150,766 people cast ballots in Florida.
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