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Mexican Voters Head to the Polls
AP via Fox News ^
| July 02, 2006
| Staff
Posted on 07/02/2006 10:53:31 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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The estimated 10 million Mexicans living in the United States were allowed to vote from abroad for the first time, but the 41,000 ballots they requested were not likely to make much of a difference.
Thousands of those who missed out were heading south Sunday to cast votes at ballot centers set up along the border.
To: La Enchiladita
I wonder if they have to show proof of citizenship to vote down there?
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posted on
07/02/2006 10:54:59 AM PDT
by
Paloma_55
(I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
To: La Enchiladita
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:03:45 AM PDT
by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
To: Paloma_55
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:07:12 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Change calls the tune we dance to.)
To: Paloma_55
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:07:14 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Change calls the tune we dance to.)
To: Paloma_55
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:07:17 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Change calls the tune we dance to.)
To: Paloma_55
they have to show a voter registration ID card with a picture and an assigned voter record number on it...
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:10:10 AM PDT
by
Cinnamon
To: Hildy
We should move our elections to Sunday. No need to create yet another paid holiday. The second Sunday after the first Tuesday in November would be an ideal time to hold the election. All it would require is an Act Of Congress to change the date.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:10:29 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
and did I mention they prohibit alcohol sales on voting day? yep
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:11:25 AM PDT
by
Cinnamon
To: Cinnamon
and did I mention they prohibit alcohol sales on voting day? yepWe'll never see that happen in the US Senate!
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:14:28 AM PDT
by
You Dirty Rats
(I Love Free Republic!!!)
To: Hildy; goldstategop
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?I doubt the goobermint labor unions would permit it. I just cannot imagine a government worker (except for the great men and women in uniform) wanting to work on the weekend.
To: La Enchiladita
We should hold our elections on April 15.
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:15:27 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Refute the Drive-By Media. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: Jeff Chandler
LOL! Vote ALL the bastids out!
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:18:53 AM PDT
by
livius
To: Vision Thing
If you pay the double-time they would.
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:19:51 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Change calls the tune we dance to.)
To: Hildy
Spray that mouse button with some WD-40.
JJJ
< /sarcasm>
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:21:00 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(The media and the democrats are the biggest supporters of the terrorists.)
To: You Dirty Rats
"We'll never see that happen in the US Senate!"
No so. In Indiana, alcohol can't be sold on Election Day. I believe Oklahoma has a similar law, or at least used to.
At one time there were lots of laws banning alcohol on Election Day.
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:24:09 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:25:46 AM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
To: Paloma_55
I wonder if they have to show proof of citizenship to vote down there? Mexican voters must show ID and get fingerprinted.
To: Hildy
Thats right during the middle of football season. A better I idea would to have the election right before April 15th, when every has to pay their taxes.
To: Paloma_55
I wonder if they have to show proof of citizenship to vote down there? I am looking at the lines of voters from my apartment window in northern Mexico. Each voter has an id card with their picture and various "tamper proof" electronic coding. (Much like a driver's license in the U.S.) Each voter presents the card and its picture and information is cross-checked to a book containing a facsimile of the voter identification. Presumably citizenship was verified in order to obtain the identification. But birth certificates are not hard to "obtain" in Mexico. The IFE (Federal Election Institute) is in charge of a "limpia" (or "clean") election. Some in Mexico are trying to make this a clean election. At the moment things seem to favor PAN candidate Calderon.
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posted on
07/02/2006 11:33:32 AM PDT
by
Draco
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