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...process. The price of postage varies from state to state, and is even inconsistent within states. The postage required for an absentee ballot in Los Angles, for example, costs 41 cents, whereas in some counties in Florida, returning the ballot by mail costs $1.14. Voting officials place the burden of determining and correctly placing postage for these ballots on students who, living in an age when young people almost never visit the post office, may not even know the price of a stamp. Indeed, in talking to multiple fellow students this week, it is clear that many believe first-class...
...many of the Voter Instruction guides does it remind the voter to put on postage at all. Some ballots read, “If you are unsure of the postage cost, please check with your local office of the U.S. Postal Service,” but why should this burden be placed on the voter? While college students may be near post offices and therefore able to spend a few minutes figuring all this out, the same cannot necessarily be said about another large group of absentee voters—senior citizens —for whom trips...
...bargain or a burden? The nation certainly doesn't feel as if it's engaged in a major war. Nothing is rationed, there are relatively few casualties, and the entire burden of waging the conflict falls on the shoulders of the 1% of Americans that serve in the professional military...
...message alleging that the former Vietnam POW had somehow betrayed his fellow American captives. While he enjoys a solid base of support in a state with a large population of active and retired members of the military, the former Vietnam POW is dogged in the state by the same burden that sank his candidacy in Iowa - his stance on immigration. On Friday, at a campaign rally in Mt. Pleasant, one McCain supporter, Mike Schaffer, said he had called 12 voters that morning on behalf of the campaign. "Four of them were adamant that they were not happy with him, naming...
...other problems. With regard to education, Rudy increased standards in New York’s high schools and colleges. He reduced mob control of certain city markets, restructured the city’s hospital system, recharged the city after 9/11, and rectified many more problems, while reducing the tax burden on New Yorkers by over 17 percent. The list goes...