Charles P. Pierce:

Florida Early-Voting Madness: Why Is This Still So Hard?

“…Elections officials, overwhelmed with voters, locked the doors to their Doral headquarters and temporarily shut down the operation, angering nearly 200 voters standing in line outside — only to resume the proceedings an hour later. On the surface, officials blamed technical equipment and a lack of staff for the shutdown. But behind the scenes, there was another issue: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. The Republican had never signed off on the additional in-person absentee voting hours in the first place. “That was counter to what I said on Friday, which was we were not going to change the game mid-stream,” he said. “I said, ‘No, there’s no way we did this.’” But Gimenez, who is in a nonpartisan post, quickly realized it was better to let the voting go on, and the voting resumed.”
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/doral-florida-early-voting-confusion-14449029#ixzz2BJOJrE8P

Pierce quotes Valerie Jarrett: “Why are we arguing about voting in the United States of America in 2012?”