Posted on 10/06/2008 3:16:12 AM PDT by tomymind
Presidential Campaigns Join Overseas and Military Voter Outreach Effort
Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) is fielding record levels of online activity from overseas and military voters and views this as a key indicator of potentially unprecedented high levels of voter participation of overseas and military voters in Election 2008.
Over 2 million visitors have come to the OVF website, or an OVF hosted website in 2008. The month of September averaged 25,000 visits per day to the combined total of 17 OVF hosted websites. Of the tens of thousands of voters that OVF has helped to register, 26% are first-time voters, for 70% this is the first time they will vote from overseas, and 35% are under 30 years of age. The voting experience of these new and young voters is significant as it may affect their inclination to vote again in the future.
Both the Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin campaigns are championing customized versions of OVF's services for overseas and military voters as part of their notable efforts to reach out to a voter group that becomes ever more important when facing the prospect of razor-thin margins in some voting districts. Their respective overseas and military voter services websites, https://obama.overseasvotefoundation.org and https://mccain.overseasvotefoundation.org are integrated into their official campaign sites and serve to send a new and strategic message of recognition to overseas and military voters about the importance of their votes.
Chip Levengood, OVF's Chairman, said, "This level of broad outreach is having an impact. Key states, campaigns and major voter registration organizations including VOTE411.org, Rock the Vote, and FAWCO are working with us to provide comprehensive services to overseas and military voters this year. Together, we're reaching US voters across 220 countries."
"It's an historic election year for overseas and military voters who for the first time have online assistance at each of the three critical steps in the overseas voting process - registration, ballot delivery and ballot return. OVF's new, online Vote-Print-Mail Ballot and the Express Your Vote ballot return program complete the voting cycle," stated Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, OVF's President and CEO.
The OVF Express Your Vote program is supported by FedExR Express. States providing OVF Voter Services are Alabama, Kentucky, Minnesota, Texas, West Virginia and Vermont. All OVF services can be accessed through www..overseasvotefoundation.org.
Maybe they will make the difference in November. I would like to know how many votes (state by state) went to Kerry / Bush in 2004.
That's at least two. And I am proud to be one of those absentee voters helping President Bush in 2000 when Gore tried to get rid of my brothers and sisters votes from the Navy.
Mine from Chile goes in today! NOBAMA!
I forgot to bring mine in today, so I’ll have to mail it in tomorrow.
The Dems will work against the latter, no matter how much we work for the former.
I LOVE your office!
Thank you for your service.
(Now, how about an office tour...?)
Everything is filled out from local alderman right up to the Congressional race, ballot initiatives, bonds, the works.
Fedex pack is just waiting to be sent.
Only thing left is punching the ballot for Electors for President of the United States.
For me it boils down to three men and one day.
Barr. Baldwin. McCain. (McCain would not even be on this list were it not for Sarah Palin).
The day? Wednesday a.m. our time, at the conclusion of debate # Two.
It is all up to McCain now. If he surprises me and follows the G.O.P. Conservative Base and Sarah Palin's urging, laying into this Obama character and makes a good faith effort to utterly clean his clock, going after Obambi on all his rotten socialism, communism, ties to terrorists, etc., he will have earned a modicum of respect, and I will consider sending that off marked for McCain.
But, if he plays moderate/conciliatory Mr. Reach-Across Joe Niceguy, lets Obama get away with murder (Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, ACORN, Trinity Church, Weathermen Terrorism, Odinga in Kenya, Obama's suspicious and massive foreign donation money trail overseas, etc.) before the American people live on TV, then in my opinion, Senator McCain is nothing more than a RINO who neither needs nor deserves this Conservative American's vote. If he won't fight for me, why should I fight for him, with all apologies to Sarah Palin--great person that she is.
Sorry, but that's how it goes for AiT.
Anyone is free to vigorously lobby me via Freepmail on behalf of McCain, Barr or Baldwin, I will keep an open mind until the point of no return, and I will respond. But after after Wednesday our time here, Tuesday night there in the USA, it goes in the express, certified mail to the USA, and that wil be the end of that.
This time it’s too serious to F around. I don’t like McCain but I will vote for him. I know it’s trite but a vote for anyone else is a vote for Obama. My motto is “REMEMBER THE SUPREMES” and I don’t mean Diana Ross’s bunch. The all important democrat mantra of Stare Decisis will disappear if he packs the courts with liberals. They will remake the Constitution in their Marxist image as Supreme Court ruling after ruling will be overturned for the good of the “people.” I wonder what taxes will be on those living in foreign countries?
Well, it is up to McCain then, isnt it? HE better not “F” around. OK?
Why thank you kindly... I hope to be back flying it in November of 2009!!!
Regards!!
I think we all have a dog in this hunt.
I voted for Sarah via registered mail today.
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