I thought billytea was right but this website says the second comma stays.

(it's towards the end of rule #4)

When both a city's name and that city's state or country's name are mentioned together, the state or country's name is treated as a parenthetical element.

I voted! Finally. The lines the last couple days were insane, but late this afternoon the sky was very threatening and the line was shorter. 45 minutes total. I had to explain the one man/one woman amendment thing to the old lady behind me. She wanted to make sure she wasn't banning gay marriage or ruining things for all the old people living together with partnership agreements.

Why do amendments have to be written so badly? The first one reads:

Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to delete provisions authorizing the Legislature to regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship.

Ok, to delete provisions authorizing prohibiting. It is also remarkable the number of people that show up to the polls that haven't done any prior research and hit these things for the first time. It is no wonder that they almost always pass.

Anyway, nothing to do now until I sit down and watch elections returns. (send landslide vibes) The early voting queue, all Obama that were talkative. The older woman had an Obama sticker.

Laura I read that amendment and I have no idea what it means, I need to look it up.

Laura I read that amendment and I have no idea what it means, I need to look it up.

I need to read over it again, too. Actually, there are a couple things on the ballot I need to make sure of before I vote.

I really didn't like the way Amendment 2 was worded, it was so baised for the amendment being passed. And I got an email (with my grandmother's name) from Liberty Council urging me to vote for the Amendment and fight Anti Family groups trying to destroy marriage.

I sent them a form back (I found a place to do that) saying I didn't know how they got my email address but I consider Amendment 2 to be anti family.

As least LOL Cat customer service wouldn't try to upsell you after they haven't helped you.

Oh, I *hate* that.

Dear coworker: I know you have a family and often can't get to work at your scheduled time but I'm tired of your saying you'll be x minutes late and arrving 2x minutes late.

The Palm Beach Post had a good explanation on Amendment 1:

Acting out of fear of the "Yellow Peril," Florida amended the state constitution in 1926 to ban "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning land. The "Yellow Peril" fear of Asian immigration has been replaced by fears of illegal Hispanic immigration, but the ban remains.

It shouldn't. Such outdated xenophobia has been removed from state constitutions nationwide - most recently in New Mexico and Wyoming - leaving Florida as the last state with a constitutional throwback to racist "Jim Crow" laws. Amendment 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot would remove the ban. Passage requires support from 60 percent of voters. The Legislature voted to hold the referendum in the closing moments of the 2007 session at the urging of state Sen. Steve Geller, D-Hallandale Beach.

Even though the ban never had been applied, passage did not come without a fight. Rep. Mitch Needelman, R-Melbourne, argued that it would be nice to keep it around as an immigration-fighting tool. Thirty House members agreed with Rep. Needelman. Voters can tell them how wrong they were by erasing this stain from a racist past.

Hard to get all that from the wording of the actual amendment.

Oy, it's so unbelievably headache inducing, the legalese.