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The Expat Factor: Making Overseas Votes Count
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- When the large brown manila envelope arrived in my mailbox, I was momentarily flummoxed. "What's this?" I wondered. And then I saw the return address: Illinois State Board of Elections. It was my ballot for the Feb. 2 primary. "Phew!" I thought. "Thank goodness it arrived on time." There are as many as 6 million Americans living abroad, with an estimated 4.9 million of voting age. But although overseas Americans have had the right to vote for decades, the process has historically been riddled with imperfections. According to Stephen Ansolabehere, a political scientist at Harvard ...
VA Judge: Preserve Military Ballots
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyBreaking right now is a decision from a federal judge in Virginia that absentee military ballots in the Old Dominion must be preserved until a court hearing on the ballots' legitimacy can be held on November 10th. The campaign of Sen. John McCain filed suit in federal district court in Virginia yesterday seeking to compel county boards of election across the state to count absentee ballots from military members serving overseas. At least one Virginia county, Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, has been refusing to count military absentee ballots, claiming that the ballots required an address ...
Obama's Grandmother Has Died: Update
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMadelyn Dunham has passed away at age 86. Obama announced the sad news in a joint statement with his sister. He said his grandmother had died peacefully after fighting cancer. From the family statement:"She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances."Obama learned of her death this morning while campaigning in Jacksonville, Florida. Late last month, Obama took a break from campaigning and flew to Hawaii to be with Dunham, who helped raise him.The campaign says Obama ...
And the Lawsuits Begin...
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyJohn McCain's campaign has filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Board of Elections, asking that the absentee ballots of overseas military personnel be counted - even if they don't arrive here in the U.S. until after the Nov. 4 deadline.CNN is reporting this evening the McCain campaign wants Virginia - a state that the Republican candidate has to win - to accept absentee ballots up until Nov. 14. State election rules say these ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day.I called the Virginia Elections Board at 6 p.m. ET tonight, and they said they haven't actually been served with the ...
Ballot Trouble?
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyIn the 2000 presidential election, voters in Palm Beach County, Fla., were flummoxed by the butterfly ballot. The confusing ballot design caused thousands of voters, including some Holocaust survivors, to vote for Pat Buchanan when they intended to vote for Al Gore. Eight years later, it's happening in Palmer Township, Penn., where the absentee ballot design places the name of the candidate below the matching bubble or between two bubbles. One confused voter said:I'm not a stupid person, and I was very distressed, because here we are; Pennsylvanians -- us, Pennsylvanians! -- could determine ...
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