We're all aware of the 60,000 absentee ballots that "went missing" in Florida.  Many folks have just received them today, but the deadline for their receipt (via mail) is still tonight--which is ridiculous.  So of course, the ACLU is suing to get the deadline on these ballots extended until November 12...

From ACLU Sues Over Late Absentee Ballots (AP via Yahoo):

...Absentee ballots mailed by Florida elections supervisors too late for possibly thousands of voters to return them on time should still count, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The suit, filed against Secretary of State Glenda Hood and elections supervisors in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, asks that completed absentee ballots mailed in the United States that arrive at county offices before Nov. 12 be counted. State law required those ballots to reach county offices by Tuesday night.

The Nov. 12 deadline would be the same standard applied to absentee ballots filed by voters who are out of the country.

"These are not people who filed their request for an absentee ballot late," said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida. "These are people who filed it well in advance of the deadline and some of them just got their absentee ballot (Tuesday) — effectively preventing them from participating in today's election."

An ACLU lawsuit against state officials or Gov. Jeb Bush isn't unusual. The group previously sued the state seeking better recount guidelines, maintains that problems with the 2002 primary elections hurt minority voters, and sued Bush over his order that a brain-damaged woman be kept alive over her husband's objections.

"Canadian geese migrate south in the winter. The ACLU sued the state of Florida on Election Day," the governor said. "No big deal."...

Got that?  Thousands of people have been disenfranchised via absentee ballot screwups on the part of the Florida Elections Division.  Jeb's response?  No big deal.  What a dick.