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MIT Shirt Fools Florida Poll Workers

Originally published on Wed November 7, 2012 6:02 pm

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Florida's voting trouble includes the saga of a woman in Boca Raton. You may not bring campaign propaganda to a polling station. Boca News now reports she showed up yesterday with a shirt that said Mitt. She was denied entry to vote. But a closer inspection of her shirt showed the Republican candidate's first name was misspelled. An election supervisor let her vote after confirming the shirt said MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.

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