Posted on 10/21/2004 6:55:49 AM PDT by Mike Fieschko
As recently as 1992, in Pennsylvania, you had to give a reason for your absentee ballot request when you sent it to the County Clerk's office, or the request could be denied.
Voting is not difficult, nor inconvenient -- especially not in a Presidential election year. I've put more effort into returning a rented video than I've put into voting, and I've voted on election day in every election (primary, general, and school board) for the past 12 years.
The only reason to vote absentee is if you are in the military or working out of town for an extended period of time. Otherwise, just go to the poll and get it over with.
Give all those employees overtime and get the damn ballots out!
OMG! I have been waiting weeks for my CO absentee ballot.
I called several times and was on hold for close to an hour. They said we should all have ballots by tomorrow...
we shall see. This is outrageous.
All the wrong "reforms" have been implemented.
The reform that is needed is a national database that insures people can only vote once, and only if they are alive and a citizen. Honestly, I have to show my driver's license to vote: why can't that be the basis of registration. For those who don't or can't drive, every state offers a state photo-ID card.
Instead, what we get are absentee ballots for no reason, early voting, screw the military, lawyers keeping third-party candidates off the ballot, threats of baseless "intimidation" lawsuits, promises that the loser will never concede, and so forth.
vote in 2000 - Bush #-% / Gore #-% / Nader #-%
Colorado 883,748 51 738,227 42 91,434 5
The total population of Colorado is 4.3 million. 1.7 million actual votes were cast in 2000. Absentee ballots and new registrations this year are both around 6% of all votes cast last time. Bush's margin of victory in 2000 was 9% of the vote, 145,000 votes, and each of the above is current north of 100,000.
According to a report by the AP yesterday the state has less than 4.3 million eligible voters, but 4.2 million are registered, an astounding 98 percent.
AP reports that, "The result is that in 36 of Missouri's 114 counties and in the city of St. Louis, more voters are registered for the November elections than were residents age 18 and older in the July 2003 Census Bureau estimate." St. Louis has 246,320 voting-age residents and 281,316 of them are registered to vote.
One county in Missouri recently sent out absentee ballots that omitted George Bush and Dick Cheney as candidates.
From NRO's battleground state watch...
Another vote to create a national ID with picture requirement for voting!!!
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