Flooded Broward polling place relocated as rain disrupts Election Day voting, officials announce
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Wet weather flooded at least one Broward County polling place on Election Day, and voters assigned to that location are being sent to another location in Davie, according to Broward officials.The polling place at the Paradise Village clubhouse on West State Road in Davie flooded, voting officials said. Voters have been relocated to Tree Tops Park. Some had already arrived by midmorning and told CBS News Miami that they were notified about where to go. "We're flooded out at Paradise Village, and it was closed, and we moved over here; they notified us, so now I'm here on Election Day," Tom Iatesta said. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Earlier Tuesday, voters at the Miramar City Hall polling place told CBS News Miami why they were casting ballots."I'm also an immigrant, naturalized, so I'm very proud of these liberties that I have, so I'm going to exercise them no matter what, rain, shine, it doesn't matter," said voter Sarah