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Orlando equal to Moscow? Not quite yet

By Jacqueline Dowd

Just a few weeks ago, Mayor Buddy Dyer described the opening of Orlando's new IKEA store as something that will "cement our position as a retail destination equal to Stockholm, Moscow and Beijing."

But Orlando falls short of Moscow in at least one way -- making provisions for homeless people to vote. In Moscow, a polling station, which covers the Kremlin and Red Square, was the designated station for homeless people wishing to vote.

Read the Moscow Times article here.

Full post as published by the 13th juror on December 03, 2007 (boomark / email).