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...first hurdle to overcome in being a good citizen is getting a ballot. Sample ballots, applications for absentee ballots and absentee ballots themselves often appear dangerously close to voting day itself, tragically slowed by the national mail. This year I am betting on the IOP. Cross my fingers and hope...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Long-Distance Democracy | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...suppose I actually get my ballot, and there's a nice window of time in which it can actually, feasibly get back to the Registrar-Recorder by November 3. Here comes the real problem--filling it out. The list of names are meaningless: governor, attorney general, U.S. representative, school superintendent. These are the people who can actually affect my beloved Los Angeles County, and all I know about them is what party they belong to. The Natural Law party? What's that? Maybe I should vote for their candidate. I couldn't feel much more clueless. It's hard...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Long-Distance Democracy | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...home is home is home. It's not Cambridge; it's where I care about. So I must figure out my ballot. The paper's endorsements are read to me over the phone, everything filtered through my family. I'm not being a grown-up and proudly casting my vote according to my opinion and mine alone. I'm begging for advice in my void of information...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Long-Distance Democracy | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...send in an absentee ballot the same thing would probably happen to it that happened to the absentee ballots last year," said Adam R. Abate '02, referring to a scandal in his home state of Florida last year involving falsified absentee ballots...

Author: By Joshua S. Carson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Fights Political Apathy | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...paucity of ballot casters proved discouraging...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Even in Ivory Tower's Shadow, Turnout is Low | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

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