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...observations, the youth vote is buzzing in Minnesota. During the 2004 presidential election, the state topped the nation in 18- to 24-year-old voters showing up at the polls, and nearly 90,000 new 18- to 29-year-olds have registered in the state. Young activists literally overnight put placards around the University of Minnesota campus with Obama and get-out-the vote signs. As early as 7 a.m. car horns incessantly honked as the activists waved signs and danced on University Ave., the main thoroughfare on campus...
...Amber Braun, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Minnesota, smiled widely as she exited the polling station here. But she said she might not have voted if activists hadn't briefed her yesterday on the voting procedure. The next morning, a line of roughly 50 students waited quietly to cast their first votes. Many, like Precious Gaddis, a junior and first time voter, were at the wrong polling station and left. Gaddis said someone at her apartment complex told her she could vote at the student union but was turned away there today. Meanwhile, students in line...
...first raised the specter of voter fraud several weeks ago, when it argued against a novel "golden week" - a five-day period in early October during which new voters could go to boards of election to both register and vote at the same time. The ORP argued that simultaneous registration and voting didn't allow election officials to verify voters' identities. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Ohio secretary of state...
...inner-city neighborhoods of Grand Rapids, Mich., Democrats are taking no chances. Cars with loudspeakers mounted on the roof are prowling the streets, exhorting people to vote: "Your vote can make a difference...
Volunteers with sample ballots were demonstrating how to vote and giving advice on whom to vote for to those waiting at the First Christian Reformed Church on Bates Street. Asked if he was allowed to campaign while voters were standing in line, a Democratic volunteer pointed to a spot in the parking lot and said, "It's O.K.! I'm behind the [electioneering] line...