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The U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday that it's trying to find a way to permit American expatriates to connect to an absentee voting site that has been cordoned off because of the risk of hackers. Internet users in large portions of the world have been blocked from connecting to the voting assistance Web site, which tells absentee voters how to cast ballots in the November election. The list of Internet providers that appear to be blocked includes British Telecom, Wanadoo, Telefonica and China Telecom. "We're aware of the problem, and we're working on a solution," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Ellen...

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U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's sister was in Montreal on Friday, stumping for expatriate American votes and encouraging them to support her brother. "I trust you are all registered and will be applying for absentee ballots?" Diane Kerry told one group. The U.S. presidential election is considered to be extremely close. A Pew Research Center poll released Friday had Kerry tied with U.S. President George W. Bush. But a Gallup poll had Bush ahead 52-40 among registered voters and 54-39 among the smaller group of likely voters. The margin of error for the Pew Poll, which sampled 976 people,...

PARIS – Louise Meyers doesn't usually accost strangers in the street and ask them about their private lives. These days, though, she is making an exception: As a Paris-based foot soldier in the Democrats' worldwide campaign to register US voters abroad "I'm not shy," she says. "If I hear anyone speaking English I go up to them and ask if they are registered." As early October deadlines approach for registering to vote in the US presidential elections approach, Ms. Meyers is part of a frantic drive by both major parties to rally their supporters around the world just in case...

PARIS - Louise Meyers doesn't usually accost strangers in the street and ask them about their private lives. These days, though, she is making an exception: As a Paris-based foot soldier in the Democrats' worldwide campaign to register US voters abroad "I'm not shy," she says. "If I hear anyone speaking English I go up to them and ask if they are registered." As early October deadlines approach for registering to vote in the US presidential elections approach, Ms. Meyers is part of a frantic drive by both major parties to rally their supporters around the world just in case...

AMSTERDAM — There has never been a greater need for strong leadership in the White House, Diana Kerry said in Amsterdam Sunday as she rallied support for her brother, Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry. Avoiding commenting on the specific policies her brother might pursue if elected the 44th US president, Diana Kerry took every opportunity to urge US citizens living overseas to register in time to vote on 2 November. Diana Kerry, 57, is chairwoman of Americans Overseas for Kerry (AOKerry.com) and is visiting several cities in Europe to promote the registration website www.overseasvote2004.com. She was in Amsterdam on Sunday...

Japanese TV (JNN-TBS) has now prominently carried in news prime time in Japan a short story on the American SWIFT BOAT VETERAN TV ADS, President Bush's comments on them, and the fact that the TV ads are highlighting questions about American Presidential Candidate John Kerry's heretofore unblemished Vietnam War background, etc..The do borrow the terminology of American slanted liberal media, calling them "attack ads" ("chusho CM" or transliterated: "injury commercials"). But they do seem to get the story out to the Japanese viewers about Kerry's shaky ground of recent.YOU CAN SEE THIS VIDEO CLIP (probably for another day or...

MEXICO CITY - President Bush's nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns "reprehensible."Speaking in a mix of English and sometimes-halting Spanish, George P. Bush said his uncle was not to blame for the gun policy, which has angered Mexicans. He instead blamed it on "some local INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) guy who's trying to be tough, act macho.""If there has been American approval for this policy, that is reprehensible," Bush said of the guns, essentially paintball projectiles filled with chile powder. "It's kind...

(08-20) 10:57 PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Bush's young, Hispanic nephew and his bride are on the campaign trail -- in Mexico, where they are joining the increasingly vigorous battle for the votes of 1 million U.S. citizens living south of the border. George Prescott Bush -- whose father is Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and mother, Columba, is originally from Mexico -- was arriving late Friday for a four-day tour in support of his uncle's re-election campaign. The trip was paid for by the political nonprofit Republicans Abroad. The campaign for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry also is courting...

CALGARY (CP) - U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign veered north into Canada on Tuesday as his sister appealed to expatriate Americans to register for their absentee ballots. With all expectations of a tight election fight this November, the Democrats are looking everywhere for votes, Diana Kerry said during a stop in Calgary. "We do know that there's going to be battlegrounds in lots of places and we're fighting on every front," said Kerry, who chairs a group called Americans Overseas for Kerry. While there are no official numbers, estimates suggest there are upwards of 400,000...

Israel, the ultimate swing state? In Election 2004, true battlegrounds may be across the seaBy RANDALL RICHARD AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- When decision time comes this fall, the real swing votes in the 2004 presidential election may not come from Pennsylvania, Ohio or even the notorious Florida. The ultimate Bush-Kerry battleground may turn out to be somewhere more far-flung and unexpected -- Israel, Britain, even Indonesia. And both political camps say they are getting ready for the fight, courting American voters who are living overseas and taking no chances that the expatriate vote will undermine them at...

MEXICO CITY — John Kerry (search)'s sister urged Americans living in Mexico to support the Democratic presidential candidate, saying Thursday they could help the United States "get back to having a president we can feel proud of." Diana Kerry (search), chairman of Americans Overseas for Kerry (search), campaigned for a second day in Mexico City. Absentee ballots from Americans living abroad have taken on new significance since the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

Bruce Bonine, a native of Mercer Island, Washington, who now lives in Austria, uses a hockey stick to slap rubber ducks down a stream in Klosterneuburg during a mock 'election' race between George W. Bush and John Kerry, on Sunday, May 2, 2004. A duck bearing Kerry's name won. The event was organized by Democrats Abroad, which is trying to get Americans overseas to vote in November'sU.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)