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Still, states have a hodgepodge of rules for counting absentee ballots. Edison and Mitofsky sent a memo to analysts in September, warning that dealing with the absentee vote "is a very, very tricky business." In Missouri and Ohio, some counties include mail-in votes in their precinct tabulations and some don't. In certain states, the memo concluded, "as much as 15% to 30% of the total vote may not be counted on election night even when nearly 100% of all precincts have reported...
...Election Day, HAVA requires states to offer provisional ballots. The ballots will be counted if officials confirm the person is a registered voter afterward. But Republican election officials in several states are mandating that provisional ballots can only be counted if they are cast in the voter?s correct precinct. Democrats are suing, claiming that discriminates against the poor and minority voters, who tend to change addresses more often. A judge in Ohio ruled in favor of the Democrats; one in Florida ruled for the Republicans. It?s likely that this issue or one of the many other disputes could...
...weapons are as old-fashioned as yard signs and leaflets; the tactics, as post-millennial as data mining and microtargeting. If you live in the right precinct, a database somewhere probably holds information that not even the person who sits in the next office knows about your voting record, the issues that matter to you, the church you attend, even the things you like to do on weekends (see story, page 38). All year, both sides have been showing up at the doorsteps of millions of potential voters, asking them their views on gun control, the death penalty and abortion...
Three hours into the new year, we called it a night. I thought I knew what the officer would say—my elementary school sat right next to the 13th Precinct and our classrooms had been visited several times by local cops on community service missions—but I asked just for the hell of it. “What are you supposed to do in a situation like this? Just give them what they want...
...because of the way politicians have gerrymandered St. Louis’s political boundaries, many African-American areas are divided up so that no one precinct has an African-American majority or plurality. Because groups like ACT have to target precincts, not individual voters, this makes it very difficult to target African-American voters through traditional methods. Young voters, another untapped resource in St. Louis, are even more difficult to find. They frequently don’t have home phones, they are difficult to contact in door-to-door canvasses and they don’t listen to professional campaigners...