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...should get his number one vote? Of course not. They’re looking at the same scores as the computers and trying to rationalize who should be ranked where from that information. Actually, that’s even a lie. They’re handing off their ballot to sports information directors who take the time to fill it out for them and send it in. Since the computers have a defined system for processing statistics, I’ll put my money on them, thank you very much...
...election has energized Americans on both sides of the political spectrum like never before?and that includes the estimated 6 million Americans living abroad. The U.S. government has already responded to more than 5 million requests for overseas ballot applications, compared with 1.8 million in 2000. The sheer number of expat voters could make the difference in a close race. "The interest in this election is amazing," says Ruth McCreery, a translator and writer who is the Tokyo-based vice chairperson of Democrats Abroad for the Asia-Pacific region. "Thanks to Florida, people have realized that overseas absentee ballots really...
...oppose the Commander in Chief who sent them to Iraq. Hoping to capitalize on such anti-Bush sentiments, Hong Kong-based American and Democrat Brett Rierson set up OverseasVote.com, the first of three websites to help would-be expat voters navigate the bureaucratic hurdles to obtaining an absentee ballot. The website, which provides user-friendly links to a Pentagon site that offers downloadable ballot applications, has so far helped register more than 65,000 people around the world. "The reason for the success is Bush's [low] standing globally," says Rierson, a former venture capitalist who has taken to electioneering...
...Phoenix foundation called the People's Choice for President went looking for a state where the rules could be changed by ballot initiative. In Colorado, case law has established that such initiatives are the equivalent of legislative acts. The foundation teamed up with reform-minded Coloradans, who started a campaign called Make Your Vote Count and collected more than 134,000 signatures to put 36 on the ballot. Most of the financial backing has come from J. Jorge Klor de Alva, the former president of the University of Phoenix, a for-profit adult-education school. Klor de Alva, who divides...
...Licking County's Bush-Cheney campaign coordinator the rest of the time. The front seat of her station wagon is filled with maps, the back with yard signs. Fiore has replaced the baskets of voter-registration materials she once carried in the back seat with absentee-ballot forms to give to potential Bush voters who might not make it to the polls on Election Day. She says workers from her pool of 3,000 volunteers are making a total of 500 to 1,000 calls a night, and she's happiest when the numbers they bring back show...