[Iowa Granny]

Requesting an absentee ballot and returning an absentee ballot are two different things.

B I N G O ! ! !

I have an up to date list of people in my county who have requested an Absentee Ballot, so I can hand address Bush literature to them. From studying the list it appears a majority of the D's who requested ballots are not 'new' voters. Many of them have been around as long as I have,,, and I got here when dirt was young.

[Kylie_04]

Well let us hope that these "old voters" aren't so old that they are already in that dirt....nut little would surprise me.

My point earlier was that people that are "urged" to vote absentee - rather than seeing a real need to do so on their own - might be less likely to actually return the ballot.

I worry about people with multiple homes voting absentee in one state and in person in the other...these RATS will try anything. I hope the "powers that be" in the GOP learned SOMETHING from 2000....

Even having volunteered, I have this helpless feeling since my state is so darn red anyway...I think I could do more good elsewhere.

[c-b 1]

I don't know how it works in Iowa, but I know how it works along the border. The candidate, and or his machine go out and recruit registered voters, and register new voters, to request early ballots. In some cases the early ballots are requested to be sent to a member of the machine, who then takes the ballots to the voters for them to sign, then the carrier marks the ballot, and takes it to elections. The candidate can get a list of the early ballots sent out each day, they know what day the voter will get the ballot, they show up at the voter's house that day, pick up, and mark the ballot, and turn them in. Some of these people turn in stacks of ballots every day.

Yes these candidates are Democrats, the interesting thing is that this is also done in the primarys, when the opponent is a Democrat. In most cases both candidates are doing it.

People who were not registered to vote have been caught going into the polls, look at the book of registered voters, and give the name of someone on the list, get their ballot, and vote. Has anyone been prosecuted for any of these offences? Of course not, we can't offend anyone.