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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!LONDON -- 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 ...
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A bipartisan group is looking to restructure the way Americans register to vote. The Committee to Modernize Voter Registration is pushing for an automated registration system, the New York Times reported. The two chairmen of the effort, Trevor Potter and Marc Elias, said they've seen the need for a reformed system. Potter worked on John McCain's presidential campaign; Elias is a lawyer who has worked as a lead attorney for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken. "Throughout our campaign work, we saw firsthand the inefficiency and needless expense in our paper-based registration system," Potter said in a ...
Since we're hearing so much about enthusiasm and excitement on the ground level, a Google News Archive Search yields some interesting information. Oct 25, 2004 - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The first week of early voting is over and as people continue to go out to the polls, many are finding time to be a problem. How long did you wait in line for early voting? Depending on the polling locations, voters could be in and out in 10 minutes or wait ...Oct 26, 2004 - Since early voting opened on Oct. 18, residents complained about the long lines to cast their ballots. So The Miami Herald dispatched a ...
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Stumping in Wisconsin today, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain said that the community organizing group ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, should be investigated for its potential role in vote fraud cases popping up across the country.MCCAIN: There are serious allegations of voter fraud in the battleground states across America. They must be investigated; and no one should corrupt the most [precious] right we have and that is the right to vote.ACORN has a history of vote fraud. Eight ACORN workers pleaded guilty this past April to charges that they ...
Political Machine's Jay Albritton scooped us on Monday about the courting of wrestling fans during the Pennsylvania primary. During WWE's "Monday Night Raw" program, Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain--who all declined invitations to lock horns in a specially arranged smackdown--were kind enough to provide taped messages to accompany WWE's voter registration drive. (According to sources, attendees who declined to register were treated to a Pumphandle Fallaway Slam.)However, in a shocking turn of events, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama decided at the last minute to hop in the ring for what ...
There was a rush of voters to register to vote in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary. The Associated Press reports:Democratic Party enrollment surged past the 4 million mark Monday, setting a state record on the last day Pennsylvanians could register to vote in next month's presidential primary.The figures, which showed modest declines in the ranks of Republicans and independents, reflected intense interest in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and recruitment efforts by both candidates, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.Since last year's ...
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