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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2012 BROWARD COUNTY EDITION $1 SOUTH FLORIDA A SunSentinel SunSentinel.com Mobile.SunSentinel.com Hw 1 On to the real season WEATHER High: 82 Low: 69 Forecast, 8D Heat fall in final preseason game, begin title defense Tuesday. 1C ON SUNDAY Medicare guide What you need to know to choose your HMO-style and drug plans. MONEY IRS scam alert Fake website set up by crooks fools many people. ID INDEX Opinion 16A Lottery 4B Obituaries Go! 8D Georgia-Florida battle Who will wear SEC East crown, earn berth in title game? 1C LIVE FROM THE BOAT SHOW Follow our fun, up-to-the-minute coverage Get the scoop on all the gadgets, gear, goodies and more Live Sun Sentinel Boat Show tweets, all day SunSentinel The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show kicks into high gear from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

today. At the Broward County Convention Center, find everything the smaller boater needs. Or stroll the docks along the Intracoastal Waterway to admire some of the world's most spectacular yachts. General admission is $20. For information about parking, shuttles and more, go to SunSentinel.comboatshow.

ELECTION '12 Punch that ballot Storm barely brushes our coast Lingering effect expected for travel 8 days of early in-person voting start at 17 sites across Broward By Anthony Man Staff writer Time starved and looking for convenience? Can't wait to give President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney your vote? Sick of all the politics and just want to get it over with? 2008 VOTING How Broward County cast ballots in the 2008 election: Election Day ballots: 47.3 Comprehensive coverage Endorsements See the complete list of endorsements from the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board. 16A and SunSentinel.com endorsements Print your ballot Before you head to the polls, create and print a sample ballot. SunSentinel.com browardballot Election guide Read about the candidates and their platforms, amendments and which seven issues matter most to Florida voters. SunSentinel.com elections Tell us about it Email us about your early voting experience, newstips (5isunsentinel.com Coming Sunday Will Palm Beach County be ground zero for ballot issues again in 2012? Early voting ballots: 34.5 I I I VOTE today Early voting, which starts today at 17 locations in Broward County, is the answer. For the next eight days, people can go to any early voting site in the county in which they live from 7 am.

to 7 p.m. By Ken Kaye and Robert Nolin Staff writers South Florida dodged a bullet on Friday, as Hurricane Sandy's fringes produced little more than a gray, rainy and gusty day. But the system's worst may be yet to come. If Sandy merges with a winter system and becomes a super snowstorm already widely known as "Frankenstorm" it could strand thousands of New York-bound air passengers in South Florida for most of next week. "It's not going to be a pretty setup," said Mike Nonnemacher, operations director for Fort Lauder-dale-Hollywood International.

"We're already expecting to have issues." Air travel between South Florida and the Northeast is See STORM, 12A Absentee ballots: 18.1 SOURCE: Florida State Department, Elections Division DAVID SCHUTZSTAFF The last day of early voting is Nov. 3. Be forewarned: Long lines are almost certain, at least some of the time, said Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes. "We're going to be open 12 hours a day, but I still think we're going to have lines," See VOTING, 15A PHOTO ILLUSTRATION Woman's eye for talent Dealer following scent of rare 1943 copper cent opened an NFL door Connie Carberg back then, Connie Nicholas says it was common to see Jets stars like Joe Namath hanging out at her house. Her father and uncle were the team doctors.

in South Florida, so he placed an ad in a local weekly: "$200,000 reward." "A lot of the time it's a wild goose chase," he said. In 39 years of coin hunting, the Maryland native has chased his share of nickels and dimes. Recently, when the Federal Reserve released a batch of misprinted dollar coins in Detroit, he said he scrambled to the city's banks and traded his See PENNY, 15A Creek woman who really, really knows the New York Jets. "I am not going to say they are going to lose, but they are going to have a hard time with the Dolphins this weekend," Carberg said. "I see Ryan Tannehill and I see the Dolphins have a very good quarterback." Carberg has been making predictions about the Jets ever since 1974 when she See SCOUT, 12A By Ben Wolford Staff writer BOCA RATON Michael O'Higgins would pay $200,000 for a penny.

But only if it's the penny, an elusive and storied 1943 copper cent. O'Higgins, 57, of Hallan-dale Beach, makes his living buying monetary oddities and selling them at a profit. The latest scuttlebutt among coin collectors suggests there's a 1943 lurking By Ihosvani Rodriguez Staff writer The New York Jets are going to have it tough this weekend against the Dolphins and will need Tim Te-bow and perhaps even some Broadway Joe to help them win. It's not a prediction coming from some television or newspaper pundit, but rather from Connie Carberg, a 61-year-old Coconut nr. r- CONNIE CARBERGCOURTESY Ph.

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