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...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 count...
...While no one knows exactly how the overseas vote breaks down, Republicans are believed to have a traditional 3-to-1 advantage, thanks in part to large numbers of overseas troops who tend to vote Republican. "I think you can count on a lot of votes for the President here," says Caryln Manning, head of Republicans Abroad in the Philippines. But Democrats argue that there are lots of expats who are against Bush but might not have bothered to register yet?not to mention the possibility that war-weary soldiers might now oppose the Commander in Chief who sent them...
...cited concern about foreign hackers, but later said it had simply forgotten to remove an older block. And American expats worldwide have complained that many U.S. states have been too slow to respond to registration applications, prompting fears that some overseas ballots won't arrive in time to be counted. Both Democrats and Republicans Abroad are busy handing out emergency federal write-in ballots to voters who haven't received their normal state ballots yet; their federal ballots will count if their state ballots don't reach election officials on time. Casting a vote from overseas can be "really complicated...
What message are we sending the intellectual elite if by providing ROTC we condone the sacrifice of our classmates’ civil rights? Perhaps in Turnbull’s world BGLTQ students don’t exist; perhaps they don’t count as part of the intellectual elite; or perhaps, since they only make up about 10 percent of the student body, their concerns and rights are of only secondary importance...
...thinking their team is a chance, only to see them concede three tries in the first five minutes. Within minutes of polls closing on the mainland, it's clear Labor, which needs an extra 13 seats, has lost two - Bass and Braddon - in Tasmania. By 6:45, the count is showing a swing to the Coalition. Before partygoers sample their first spring roll, the grim faces of Labor heavies on the big screen herald a night to forget...