oh, good freakin grief…

Florida County Eliminates Minority-Heavy Polling Places http://t.co/p7hxfe9zHL #p2 #tcot #warondemocracy

— Terrell Lewis (@SgBz) February 11, 2014

On a party-line vote, a Florida county’s Republican majority Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to eliminate almost one-third of Manatee County’s voting sites. The board accepted a proposal by Supervisor of Elections Mike Bennett (R) by a 6-1 vote to trim the number of precincts, despite unanimous public testimony against the move — and complaints by the lone Democratic Commissioner that it would eliminate half of the polling places in his heavily minority District 2.