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Morning in miami-dade miami-dade finally said they would let people pick up absentee ballots today, fill them out and hand them in. okay so far, right? we have seen already what happens in florida these days when you offer people the chance to vote. it turns out they want to vote. and they try to vote. oh, no. we're not prepared for that. today nearly 200 people got in line in the town, a republican leading town. and the only place you can vote in miami-dade county. so voters turned up trying to vote have occasioned a freakout. the election staff locked the door. first they said they did have ...

Doors. first they said they did have the equipment tor the staff. to handle voting that day. then they gave another reason. they said the republican mayor had not signed off on the plan. whatever the reason for miami-dade saying hey, come vote today. then when pem showed up to vote, they locked the doors on them. whatever the reasons, the crowd at that voting place would not leave. >> let us vote! let us vote! let us vote! >> one voter who waited with -- for two hours with her 4-year-old grandson told "the miami herald," quote, this is america, not a third world country. "the herald" says most...

Appear to have spent saturday night standing in line waiting to vote. everybody who got in line before the polls closed at 7:00 was supposed to be allowed to vote last night. well, in miami-dade the wait at that point was still several hours long so the last voter in miami-dade county last night checked into the voting place at 1:00 in the morning. having been there a minimum of six hours already by the time they checked in to vote. voting is not supposed to work like this. i'm not sure democracy as an exercise or institution or the way we choose our leaders can work like this. you are not sup...

That no mistakes are made, i think that we've got to make sure that people try, especially when you look at new york and new jersey now, where are people going to vote? people who have no power, maybe a polling place, a voting place, has been moved. there is going to be a lot of issues. but the key is, in those swing states, probably florida and ohio and making sure that what we've got are issues that are legitimate issues for which there can be no playing around as we just talked about in ohio. >> rick: if you look at the supreme court, though, and this is a court that was involved in a contr...

Places at this point don't have electricity. so we're working with the white house and with the state and also with our county clerk to try to make sure that every voting place is available. we're talking about bringing in generators. that may be necessary because of the fact that we don't have electric in most of these towns. so i'm hoping that the electric -- the power is up. if it's not, we're going to bring in generators and do whatever we can to make sure people vote and get the word about where they vote. >> cynthia, last thought about what you're watching here. we have a picture of the ...