
Despite rain, technical issues, voters make their way to polls across South Florida
By Katherine Langford
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Heavy downpours on Election Day morning left the Paradise Village neighborhood in Davie underwater, trapping residents and forcing officials to relocate polling sites."Nobody can get out to vote today. I mean, unless you have a Jeep or a truck, you can't get out of there to vote," said Lori Soucier, a Paradise Village resident who noted that many of her neighbors, including her daughter, were trapped.Voters living in Paradise Village are being instructed to cast their ballots at Tree Tops Park rather than at their original precinct. While some residents received text alerts about the sudden change, others were confused about how to locate their new voting location. Broward County Supervisor of Elections "We're flooded out at Paradise Village, and it was closed, and we moved over here; they notified us they text us," said voter Tom Latesta after arriving at Tree Tops Park.However, Soucier said not everyone received a text or saw p