Word: voter
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...very size of the Dems—the club boasts around 1000 undergraduates on its e-mail list—can make the organization’s endorsement decisive in elections where voter totals top out below 4,000. Last year’s election drew only 2,181 votes...
...Martin campaign insists it is not concerned by the Obama absence. However, its concern for black voter turnout is apparent. Martin was scheduled to appear in Atlanta Monday with the hip-hop star Ludacris, the goal being to get African-American voters back to the polls. Chambliss, for his part, was scheduled to appear with Palin in four events on Monday, focusing on encouraging voters in Republican strongholds to come to the polls one last time. The Chambliss line about being the firewall against an Obama agenda is resonating with voters. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Georgia...
...time, the threat is too serious and too real ... Now we need change. We need to look beyond 'my life, my family, my business.' Someone's got to push this change, and it has to be us." As Ramanathan has been telling her radio listeners, "Start with getting your voter registration. Start by voting." Of course, it's precisely that expected backlash at the polls that politicians are positioning themselves to exploit...
Minnesota's 87 other counties are expected to turn over their data as well, which may add to Franken's potential bonanza. From existing data, TIME estimates that as many as 285,000 Minnesota voters submitted absentee ballots. The number of rejected ballots is not yet known. Still, if Franken gets the state's other counties to give him voter information for their rejected absentee ballots, he might be able to move toward a bank of 16,000 uncounted ballots, if each county rejected a similar percentage as Ramsey. "If [Franken] can get those rejected ballots...
...State Canvassing Board, however, has yet to decide whether to consider the rejected absentee ballots; and the campaign still has to match the information about the disenfranchised voters against the rejected ballots and then to figure if any were rejected in error and whether it is worth trying to determine the voter's intent. If the Canvassing Board chooses not to consider the ballots, Franken may have to urge uncounted voters take the issue to the courts - further delaying a recount that is already expected to take three more weeks to conclude. The process may make everyone nostalgic...