Florida Electoral Board KOs Christian Slater's Provisional Ballot

Miami-Dade Election Board letter
to "Christina Slater"
(photo:  Miami Herald)

Florida continues to be the epicenter of the political fight for voting rights. The most recent episode involves the Miami-Dade electoral board, which decided to void a provisional ballot cast by movie star Christian Slater. The board's reasoning was that Slater's ballot signature did not match the John Hancock on his voter registration form.

The story, as reported in a Miami Herald blog includes a ribald touch. The board's notification letter addressed the highly visible actor as "Christina Slater."

For the record, the Herald noted that portions of the Slater "rejected" vote story first appeared in "the website BuzzFeed."

The most disturbing aspect of the incident was properly noted by the Herald:

Get ready for more stories like this in Florida. Tens of thousands of provisional ballots were cast in Florida and many of them didn't count.