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...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 full-time in recent months...
...riding on [the overseas vote]," says Robert Worcester, chairman of the MORI polling firm in London. Expats "could have swung Florida." Can they help swing next month's result? Until 1975, not all expat Americans were even allowed to vote. Today, the Federal Voting Assistance Program run by the Pentagon estimates that 6 million Americans live abroad (roughly half of whom are eligible to vote), making the expat community equivalent in population to the state of Washington, the 15th-largest in the country. To court this constituency, Democrats and Republicans have long advertised in overseas English-language newspapers in election...
...seem to be consistent with the strong position taken by the President." She added that she found it "surprising" that Rumsfeld would be trying to weaken the NID or delay reform entirely. Or not so surprising--considering that Rumsfeld's department could lose clout and money in the restructuring. Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita insists that Rumsfeld supports reform but wants to ensure that U.S. soldiers aren't shortchanged in the overhaul. --By Timothy J. Burger
...Pentagon representatives visited Harvard Tuesday seeking to hire law students, despite recent efforts to keep military officials from using the school’s recruiting resources...
Students placed pink toy soldiers in classrooms Tuesday to protest Pentagon recruitment. And Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant ’00, president of the student gay rights group Lambda, said larger protests were slated to coincide with the military’s planned follow-up visits to the school next month...