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...most exciting comebacks in Florida high school football history: With two minutes to go in a semifinal playoff game on Dec. 7 at Miami's Orange Bowl, the hitherto undefeated state champion Miami Northwestern Bulls were watching their season - and their ranking as the nation's top high school football team - slip away. The Deerfield Beach Bucks were leading 14-12 in the game, and had the ball on Northwestern's 1-yard line. But the Bulls not only kept the Bucks out of the end zone, they marched 99 yards with just one timeout left, converting two fourth-down...
...About time, too. Since 2001, Northwestern's results in Florida's standardized test, the FCAT, have helped earn the school either a D or an F from state education authorities. Last year's troubles, ironically, may have accelerated efforts to reform the school, which a generation ago enjoyed a proud reputation as an educational bulwark for its mostly African-American students. "Absolutely it's had a silver lining," says Cleveland Morley, class of 1968, a Miami businessman and vice chairman of Northwestern's alumni board. "The school and community feel the system cares enough about them again...
...Attorneys for the state of Florida, in court documents, referred to the law as a "common-sense anti-fraud measure" and pointed out that the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires everyone who signs up to vote and has a driver's license to provide that number on the application. All other applicants should provide the last four digits of their Social Security number (provided they have...
...Florida law simply takes it one step further, says Lynn Hearn, general counsel for the Florida Department of State. "It wouldn't make sense to go to all that trouble that even if they don't match we're going to go ahead and register them anyway," she says. Hearn also points out that since Jan. 1, 2006, some 1.5 million voters have been registered in Florida. While conceding that 14,000 other applicants have yet to get on the voter rolls, Hearn maintains that her main concern pertains to the potential for fraud with absentee ballots. "Our concerns...
...Opponents of the bill reject that argument, claiming there are already criminal laws on the books in Florida prohibiting fraudulent absentee voting, carrying with them a maximum sentence of five years in prison. "When you do your absentee, if I'm not mistaken, they have to certify on that particular absentee ballot that they are who they say they are," says Dianne Wheatley-Giliotti, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, which is not formally involved with the suit. "To fraudulently swear you are in violation of the law - if someone willingly does this, they are subject...