At 8 a.m. Sunday, March 8, the doors of the Cuban Civic Club, located at 10905 Memorial Highway in Tampa, opened for the 10,000 Colombian voters registered in the Tampa Bay area and its surroundings.
The lines to exercise their right to vote gradually grew longer, not only with Colombians residing in Tampa, but also with people from cities such as Clearwater, Largo, Jacksonville and Palm Beach, among others.
But despite the good intentions of the Colombian Consulate — located in Orlando and with jurisdiction over Tampa Bay — in choosing this site as a polling place, it wasn’t the best for some voters who expressed their dissatisfaction with the small size of the space…