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To: veronica

Saw a news report the other night.

Lots of Israeli's who have dual citizenship are casting absentee ballots for Bush.

It was noted that these folks had never voted in an American election since immigrating to Israel, but felt that this time it was important.

If I'm not mistaken, Israel has one of the largest concentrations of ex-pats of any country in the world.

Here's an interesting link:

http://northernva.typepad.com/crossing_the_rubicon/2004/09/american_voters.html

And excerpt from that link:

"Both parties estimate at least a doubling in the number of people casting ballots from 2000. In that election, 14,000 Americans in Israel registered, most of whom voted.

Well over 100,000 Israeli residents are eligible to vote in the election by the parties' tallies.

If the numbers prove correct, that will put Israel among the top three - if not No. 1 - in terms of expatriate Americans participating in the contest, according to Mark Alan Zober, chairman of the Democrats Abroad in Israel"



8 posted on 10/16/2004 6:48:12 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: dawn53
Well over 100,000 Israeli residents are eligible to vote in the election by the parties' tallies.

It could tip the election.

14 posted on 10/16/2004 6:55:27 AM PDT by veronica ("Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims." Abdulrahman Al-Rashed)
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