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...procedure for absentee ballot requests varies from state to state, preventing volunteers from offering a single form...
...years." Perhaps both parties have written off the youth vote this year, choosing to aim at demographics that have less apathy, more concrete demands and bigger pocketbooks to vote with. After all, in the 1996 presidential election, only one third of those 18 to 24 years old cast a ballot...
Dotcom-driven rents have become a hot-button election issue. Two propositions headed for the November ballot in San Francisco attack the way tech firms have wiggled around strict zoning restrictions on office space by defining their space as anything but an office. The radical Prop L would force live-work lofts to be used as affordable housing and ban dotcom development in areas like the Mission. The much milder Prop K, backed by Mayor Willie Brown and an assortment of business interests, would limit dotcoms in only a couple of neighborhoods--and compensate with a hefty raise...
...solution was simple: treat the Internet as a democracy. Google interprets connections between websites as votes. The most linked-to sites win the Google usefulness ballot and rise to the top of search results. More weight is given to "voters" with millions of links themselves, such as Amazon or AOL. If the big hitters are pointing to your Tiger site, Google says it's cool. Popularity equals quality...
...Then there's the little matter of the November election. "It's pretty clear where the chips have fallen," says Hagelin in his best physicist-professor monotone. "There's the Reform party and there's a Buchanan Reform party. The Buchanan Reform party will probably manage to seize ballot access in 25 states or so, while I'll maintain the Reform party ballot access in the others as a candidate plus other state ballot access as a candidate with the Natural Law party...