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Many states currently offer early voting, whether it's in-person absentee voting or just allowing voters to show up and cast their ballot at county board of elections offices or designated early voting polling places. Early voting not only expands access to the ballot in a dramatic way, it makes voter suppression much harder.
The dirty tricks, deceptive practices and voter intimidation that have become commonplace in the final 48-72 hours of election cycles become much less effective if everyone is not voting at once. If early voting is available and encouraged, it allows people to "vote in peace" and cast an independent ballot. And it allows voters extra time to try to resolve any problems with their registration or come back with proper credentials/identification if they lacked it when showing up the first time. Voters do not want to be forced to cast a provisional ballot which may or may not be counted. Early voting could help make sure they get to cast a proper ballot.
Congress has the authority to mandate (and help fund) early voting for all federal elections. As a result, states would likely enact early voting for state and local elections as well since the infrastructure would already be in place.
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Early voting is an excellent idea so long as voters have an opportunity to be fully informed before they vote. In California,the ballot pamphlets are sent out a month before the election, and voting by mail, as well as at the elections office, is possible shortly thereafter.
Posted by Celia Scott on 12/08/2008 @ 02:43PM PST
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I am for anything that encourages voter participation
I live in a rural precinct that gone to mail-only ballots. Before that, some voters here had to drive as much as fifty miles round trip, mostly on dirt roads, to reach the polling place, and when the weather was nasty it could heavily impact the voter turnout.
Now I no longer have to worry about whether it is even physically possible to get to the polls on election day.
I feel this ease of voting should be extended to all qualified voters regardless of whether the polling place is next door or many miles away.
And yes, election day should be a national holiday.
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Posted by Carolyn Whitehorn on 12/08/2008 @ 02:43PM PST
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Oregon's system of universal vote by mail in all elections is great! Anything which expands the number of voters able to participate and minimizes the opportunities for partisan skullduggery makes democracy more vibrant.
Posted by Kate Geary on 12/08/2008 @ 02:47PM PST
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We need to get rid of those Diabold electronic voting machines that have been show to be so easy to program with virus type code to permute ballots and comit election fraud to safegaurd free elecions in this country. They are a total sham and its incredulous to me that a company which specializes in secure electronic banking transactions could come up with such a problematic and insecure implementation. It screams election fraud.
Posted by Joel Andre on 12/08/2008 @ 03:02PM PST
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Election Day should be a national holiday and early voting is a great way to not only get out the vote, but to make stealing an election extremely difficult.
Posted by Carol Anne Fusco on 12/08/2008 @ 03:04PM PST
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I think national voter registration is the answer to the fraudulent "voter fraud" cries of the Republican Party. Couple a fair national registration system that does not disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, and the otherwise downtrodden, with early voting, and a national voting holiday and you would see "the people" voting in much greater numbers.
Posted by Hayden Kaden on 12/08/2008 @ 03:23PM PST
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I am an ex-pat living in Australia......early voting is a good idea...however, here in Australia voting is not an option...each person is required to vote. There are those that might say mandating would step on civil liberties...but we have now seen what happens when political apathy takes hold. And we have seen what happens when people "get" that their vote does matter. Having said the above, both my sister and brother have lost their jobs....so lets set aside the "smaller" stuff for the moment and support/focus on all we can do to assist Pres. Obama in getting the economy functioning again. This has got to be the number priority and if recovery takes place people will be more apt to realize that WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT and vote.
Posted by patti taylor on 12/08/2008 @ 03:27PM PST
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Protect the wall of seperation between church and state. If Christian displays are allowed so should other displays, whether they be atheist or other religions, non religions.
One cannot be tolerated over any other.
Pansey
Posted by Larry M Johnson on 12/08/2008 @ 03:46PM PST
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This is an excellent was to engage new voters. Make voting as convenient as we can so that more people vote regularly. More people voting early means more people are likely to pay attention to the issues and feel as if they have a voice-- that's democracy.
Posted by Barbara Becker on 12/08/2008 @ 04:01PM PST
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I'm from OREGON, we've all been voting by mail for years!!!! It's simple, easy, relaxed, safe and answers all the problems sighted above! ALL OF THEM, in one easy stroke. Get on it!
Posted by greeley Wells on 12/08/2008 @ 04:07PM PST
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I too voted early each year in Tucson and thought it a great way to get the votes out early and without waiting in line and to get my vote counted and avoid the long lines. Also the newspapers in Tucson published a copy of the ballot ahead of time so you could figure out who, and what you would be voting for.
Posted by Rollo Hysom on 12/08/2008 @ 04:18PM PST
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Watching the MN Senate recounts tells me all methods have their weaknesses - lost ballots, fer cryin' out loud!
My idea is to make all elections instant runoff. You get to vote for your 1st, 2nd, etc. choice. Lowest total vote candidate drops off the candidate list and those who voted for them get to have their second choice count. This continues until someone has 50% +1 votes.
Advantages:
1. No recount would be necessary
2. It would be hard(er) for a Diebold machine to swing an election
3. You could vote for your 3rd party candidate to make a statement without fear that you'd be helping the real opposition get elected (examples - voting for Ralph Nader in 2000 or earlier for Ross Perot.
Posted by Isis Cat on 12/08/2008 @ 04:19PM PST
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I think that early voting is absolutely necessary for fairer elections. It gets more people to the polls, it gives people the time to vote, it saves money on expensive voting equipment needing to be duplicated on a same day voting situation. It gives far more Americans, across the board but especially those of us who cannot always get to the polls in a one day voting process access. Some of us cannot stand in long lines, need public transportation or other important needs that one day voting makes harder to satisfy or so difficult we cannot get out to vote. YES to a better election process.
We don't need a holiday, we need to act.
Posted by Gretchen Schulz on 12/08/2008 @ 04:48PM PST
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Not a bad idea but not great either. Certainly now worth a national effort. First is smacks of the same unproven assertion that the right claimed to bolster voter Id. This is not really a great problem worthy of a national effort. A NATIONAL voter registration is much more important. As would be REAL campaign finance reform, and on and on. Do not waste energy solving this foux problem when REAL problems exist.
It must be the pet project of someone of staff.
Posted by Millard Johnson on 12/08/2008 @ 04:49PM PST
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I live in Oregon. We get information about all the candidates early, by mail, & then our ballot, which we can mail in right away, or drop in boxes about town set up for that purpose (early voting), or we can wait until election day to drop the ballot in one of the boxes. I like this system immensely because I fill out the ballot at home -- no distractions, no pressure.
Posted by Virginia Fillingim on 12/08/2008 @ 05:09PM PST
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Election Day should be on a Sunday when a larger percentage of the population is off work. Or, there should be a National Holiday akin to Thanksgiving when almost all businesses are closed. Or, there should be national early voting. Or, everyone ought to be able to vote by mail (as in Oregon where there are no polls). Or, people should be able to vote by email. Surely if we can send astronauts to a space station where they can live for 6 months at a time, we ought to be able to come up with a safe, secure way to vote over the internet. In any event, the present system is outdated, outmoded and discriminatory and should be scrapped in favor of all or some of the above.
Posted by Adele Grunberg on 12/08/2008 @ 05:27PM PST
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I sure wish Pennsylvania had early voting!
Posted by Yolanda S Broad on 12/08/2008 @ 05:49PM PST
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Since we first began early voting in Texas I've seen the system as a whole improve. I served as election judge under both systems.
Election day was vastly improved as a result, and the election results for the entire state were complete before 11:00 P.M. There were fewer mistakes as a result of early voting.
Posted by Joe Colvin on 12/08/2008 @ 06:35PM PST
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The first thing to do is to get rid of HAVA (Help America Vote Act).
It made voting more difficult and less secure because it required us to vote on hackable voting machines.The only ones it helped were the voting machines companies.It made them rich and us poorer. We have wasted billions of dollars on the machines and none of them is totally safe.The machines have done more to jepordize our democracy than the terrorists have.
Early voting, paper ballots, hand-counting, doing away with provisional ballots, trained observers on duty at all phases of voting, making election day a national holdiay, will all go a long way to making voting safe and convenient to all.
Posted by Linda Selvia on 12/08/2008 @ 06:49PM PST
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Anything that makes it easier for people to exercise their right to vote is a great idea. That's what democracy is all about. Only cheaters make moves to suppress the vote.
Posted by Bill Near on 12/08/2008 @ 06:49PM PST
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Anything that opens access to more people and takes away from the long lines and long waits that can deter the elderly and busy people will be a good thing.
Posted by Karl Keene on 12/08/2008 @ 06:56PM PST
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Election Day should be a no-work day. Better yet, why not an Election weekend?
Posted by Kristine Pierce on 12/08/2008 @ 07:08PM PST
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A community aspect would be lost. With in-person voting, activists are able to speak face-to-face with voters, hand out info, answer questions, build neighborhood info bases, sign up volunteers, chat with friends and neighbors. We also pollwatch and remain alert for voters who should not be there. When citizens push, we also get recountable paper (optical scan) ballots. I see the arguments for spread-out populations, and I agree about making voting day a national holiday, but early voting seems to me undesirable unless as a public, visible event.
Posted by Nathaniel Smith on 12/08/2008 @ 07:15PM PST
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I agree with early voting for the nation. I have voted early by mail in every election in recent years. Much as I used to enjoy going to the polls, as a senior citizen with health problems, it's too difficult now. I'm sure early voting and mail voting would help many other seniors. To help those still working I think national election day should be a national holiday. Before I retired, I'd get 2 hrs off to vote, but lines were long, and I lived in state where polls closed rather early. In addition, I think Presidential Inauguration Day should be a national holiday. C'mon employers, these days are only once every 4 years! We need employer cooperation in encouraging every eligible American to vote and to see the inauguration of a new president.
Posted by Gloria Aukland on 12/08/2008 @ 07:34PM PST
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No Secret Funds! Make the State Department account for all of its expenditures. Also, specify what are "United States Interests".
Posted by Malcolm Stewart on 12/08/2008 @ 07:35PM PST
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I think early voting is an essential reform and needs to be a central piece of voting/electoral legislation before the next election season in 2010. Early voting should be a national law which could be met by three weeks of voting in person or absentee ballots without reason being required.
The vastly increased early voting in 2008 increased the amount of time that people in those states with early voting had to vote, eliminated the chaotic mania when all the voting takes place in one day, and a Tuesday which people have to work as well. This made it possible to correct problems that arose by enabling people to return another day having resolved the problem, less frantic enviornment enabled the problems to be more easily solved on the spot, and also gave lawyers a chance to understand what problems were emerging before the final voting day so they could deal with them. Early voting is an important component to guaranteeing the integrity of our voting system.
Posted by Arlene Geiger on 12/08/2008 @ 07:59PM PST
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Before we focus on voting methods, let's clean up the scandalous process of gerrymandering electoral districts by the political party currently in power at the time of electoral district mapping. This in and of itself will produce a much better representative vote of the electorate.
Using contemporary computer technology it is both possible and simple to divide up all electoral districts to give better representation and to eliminate partisan efforts to cripple the opposing party.
E.G.
Assumptions:
1 The US population is 350 million.
2 We wish to have no more than 400 elected Congressional Representatives.
Ergo:
We need 400 electoral districts, each containing approximately (350*10^6/400)= 875, 000 voters.
Process:
Use a computer mapping program to divide the US map into 400 electoral districts each containing 875, 000 voters, AND to define the boundaries of the 400 districts such that the sum total perimeter of all electoral districts is minimised.
Note that perimeter minimisation is an essential part of the process, since it will tend to produce compact electoral districts, rather than some of the convoluted monstrosities that have resulted from partisan gerrymandering. The purpose of gerrymandering has not changed since the 18th century, provide a built in bias in favour of the sitting tenant of the representative district. We need to clean up this mess and we cannot trust politicians to behave honestly when their own interests are at issue.
One common set of mapping software, with its configuration under the control of a national elections board should be used to define electoral districts for national, state and local elections. Ideally the mapping software would be open source, enabling independent verification of software integrity by anyone of appropriate technical ability. It is essential that the inner working of the software NOT be protected by patent, copyright, or trade secret mechanisms; such legal devices could, and would, be used to introduce the same biases that we are trying to eliminate and to protect them from discovery
Posted by Keith Stracchino on 12/08/2008 @ 08:21PM PST
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Initiate early voting all over the country. It worked so well in Albuquerque that as a poll watcher on election day my job was almost too easy. Make it a national requirement.
Posted by kathleen james on 12/08/2008 @ 09:00PM PST
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Early voting, including absentee voting (such as we have in NM);
a National Holiday would certainly help those who cannot afford
to take time off for voting on "voting day". I took my ballot right
to the County Clerk's Office, but many could not do that; therefore would have to trust the U. S. Postal Service to deliver it (we are being conditioned to trust fewer and fewer sources of service or communication). GET RID OF THE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES: there must be a paper-trail!!!!
Robert G. Taylor, Santa Fe, NM
Posted by Robert G. Taylor on 12/08/2008 @ 09:07PM PST
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There should be a National Holiday for voting; early voting is allowed. all citizens must vote under penalty of a fine; even if one votes for none of the above.
Posted by Jack McNulty on 12/08/2008 @ 09:09PM PST
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1. I agree with the post by isis cat above (and the AZ LWV): we should institute instant runoff. 2. All voting should be by mail as in Oregon. It saves a fortune in renting voting places, hiring and training poll workers, purchasing voting equipment, making people miss work and have to travel to vote (frequently to a different polling precinct each election), etc. and more people participate.
Posted by Lou Lou on 12/08/2008 @ 09:34PM PST
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Early voting is available in Tenn. It's an excellent idea for getting a large turnout. On Election day there's only one place to vote, in early voting there are about 10 different places I can vote. This stops long lines. The Dems will stay in power a long time, if they clean up the atrocious problems with our elections.
Use paper ballots with optical scans to eliminate computer hacking and breakdown, mandate early voting nationwide, combat the horrible disenfranchisement and voter intimidation. Fine communities with excessively long voting lines. Enact stiff crimes for stealing votes and dirty tricks against voters.
Posted by Gerard Peters on 12/09/2008 @ 12:41AM PST
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please. i don't want to live in the "homeland". i was so happy living in the United States. can we not send that terrible expression away along with the would-be dictator who gave it to us?
Posted by irene arnold on 12/09/2008 @ 01:17AM PST
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Early voting was such a phenomenal success in this last election, it's hard to believe it hasn't happened before. It cuts across time zones, which has always been a problem. That is, the Eastern part of the US always held much more sway than the Western part of the country. If early voting is established as the norm, we wouldn't be faced with the proposition of creating a voting holiday. I know it sounds good, but I have a suspicion that it might actually reduce voting. A voting holiday, I'm afraid, would be reduced to sales and trips to the amusement parks; rathr than trips to the ballot boxes.
Posted by Thomas Klocke on 12/09/2008 @ 01:36AM PST
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MOST AMERICAN WORKERS ARE SUBJECT TO PASS DRUG TEST TO KEEP THIER JOBS. I AM FOR ASSISTING PEOPLE IN NEED, BUT COULD WE MAKE IT THAT PEOPLE GETTING ASSISTANCE FROM THE GOVERNMENT NEED TO PASS DRUG TEST ALSO. THE MONEY THEY RECIEVE SHOULD GO FOR FOOD & HOUSING NOT DRUGS. IF THEY ARE USING, LET'S HELP THEM STOP.
Posted by STEVE F on 12/09/2008 @ 06:41AM PST
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I thought the Idea behind this forum was to come up with ideas that would change America's direction from the useless bush ways to something that was good for the USA, and the world.
All I see on this forum is the same subject rehashed time and again.
How is Obama to react to people wanting to vote early, or vote by mail?
Try something that will really make a difference in the USA, and the World: Please help by supporting the following cause. http://www.change.org/ideas/view/get_our_military_out_of_the_war_business
Posted by Russ Wilson on 12/09/2008 @ 08:29AM PST
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I have been a democratic precinct chairman for 38 years and worked early voting the entire time that we have had it. Without a paper trail on the electronic voting machines which we do not have and which is used in many other states, elections can be stolen. In Dallas State House Seat 105 the Democrat lost by 19 votes because the Secretary of State ruled that even though someone may have voted straight Democratic if they touch a candidate while reviewing that that person would not get the vote even though the voter did not vote for anyone of another party. On a paper ballot the straight ballot would have counted that vote but on electronic machines it deselects that candidate. So we lost that race which would of given us a State Legislature that would have been 75 to 75 instead of 76 Republicans to 74 Democrats.
Posted by Joe Burkleo on 12/09/2008 @ 11:13AM PST
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The campaigns go on forever and yet they give us only 1 day to vote. I feel that there should be more than 1 day for voting. I am housebound 24/7 and it is great to get a mail-in ballot. When the county you reside in is controlled by one party or the other there should be an election committee that oversee all the mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, and any other election business.
Posted by Sandra Watkins on 12/09/2008 @ 12:23PM PST
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While we're at it, get rid of electronic voting machines that don't provide a paper receipt and are easy to hack. And BTW, we need to keep Howard Dean's 50-state strategy going. Makes it more difficult to try to tamper with an election in one key state.
Posted by Gloria Aukland on 12/09/2008 @ 01:35PM PST
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A good idea - there will always be attempts to corrupt an election - watchdogs need to be on hand. As a former Ohioan, More people were on board to monitor infractions for them this time.
Posted by Martha Newhard on 12/09/2008 @ 05:17PM PST
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Earlly voting is a good idea and it can be part of what we need to change for fair elections.Of course,we also need complete campaign finance reform,a national holiday for election day,elimination of all electronic voting machines,and (as brought up by Isis Cat) instant runoff.
Sounds easy enough to me....lol....Well,I can dream can't I?
Posted by Gary Alderette on 12/09/2008 @ 08:14PM PST
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Both my wife and I are somewhat disabled and cannot stand for very long. We always vote early for just that reason. I don't know what we'd do if we had to figure out how to survive in long lines.
Yay for early voting!
Posted by Jack Blue on 12/10/2008 @ 01:19PM PST
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Voting day or weekend should be a national holiday. Our greatest freedom is not revered and should be.
Posted by Lenore Schneiderman on 12/12/2008 @ 09:38AM PST
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There's a very interesting discussion going on here, both for and against this idea, and I'd like to bring up what I think is an important point. There are *different*, yet *completely sensible ways* of running elections.
100% mail-in voting allows for theoretical "vote-buying," but is a very interesting system otherwise.
A holiday on voting day (with "critical employees" allowed to cast absentee ballots) certainly makes sense.
However, and this is my main point, having insecure, buggy electronic voting machines with no audit capability (such as a paper trail) running secret software, which is the norm now in the US, is *already* really scary, because someone can tamper with the election "invisibly." Adding early voting to this mix does not "safeguard" the election, it exposes the election to an immense new set of risks.
Changes to the way we do elections can't be thought of as individual innovations (early voting, no early voting, id cards, no id cards, no-cause absentee voting, absentee voting only with cause), they have to be thought of in the context of a whole system, and no, national early voting does *not* make sense in every system, even if it is a good idea in some systems where it is not currently used.
Posted by Rob Simmons on 12/30/2008 @ 05:40AM PST
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Early voting sounds great but here in Colorado where we do a lot of it, early voting has some serious side effects... first it is implemented as a "vote center" where a voter from any precinct can vote. This has the hidden side effect that election officials claim that providing paper ballots is too difficult, as there are too many versions of ballots to keep in one place. So early voting put pressure to switch voting to DRE machines. Secondly, early voting is so spread out in time that it becomes impossible to provide for citizen oversight... whereas election day voting is all about citizen involvement in oversight. Thirdly, voters who vote early are giving up their opportunity to react to information which comes out close to election day (including for example, the dropping out or death of a candidate). Lastly, lines may develop at early voting (big lines this year) but election officials are not particularly concerned about them... since voters have the chance to decide to vote later... so, early voting is not all it appears at first glance. Early voting is also not done as close to home as precinct polling place elections. Early voting means in practice more dependence on cars.
Here in Colorado there is a group trying to adopt vote centers which means factory outlet voting (fewer locations, larger, and anyone in the county can vote there) even on election day. This has the same problems as early voting, and in addition, means that you are not likely to be able to vote close to home.
Posted by Harvie Branscomb on 12/30/2008 @ 08:18AM PST
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If we are going to change processes and procedures,we should focus first on election process,procedures and equipment utilized to provide ballots with-out chad or error marks,our election system is in disaray,so lets make appropriate corrections,before deciding on voting early and/or through absentee balloting.
Posted by Ronald Villagomez on 12/31/2008 @ 07:15AM PST
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He who casts the vore decides nothing, He who counts the vote decides everything -Joseph Stalin Does it matter when you vote? Vote early, vote often, what do you do to stop voter fraud? ACORN to say the least.
Posted by Scott Saunders on 01/05/2009 @ 09:29AM PST
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Why should voting be made EASY?? It should be so inconvenient that a person has to actually make an effort to vote. Show that they really care about what happens, not just vote to be voting.
Posted by James Bradley on 01/05/2009 @ 07:51PM PST
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VOTE BY MAIL
Oregon has it right!
Posted by Chris Lindsley on 01/06/2009 @ 07:51AM PST
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I invite all of you to visit the second idea about education in this second round (Introduce Esperanto as the first foreign language subject in schools to help American kids succeed), just about introducing Esperanto in the american schools, firstly as a pedagogical(?) experiment.
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Look
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José Mário Marques
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Natal - Brazil
Posted by José Mário Marques on 01/07/2009 @ 10:49AM PST
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