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How can liberals get millenials to vote for Dems in 2018? It’s EASY says liberal actor Peter Fonda. Just steal their ballots and do it for them: Then we have to take them by the hand and lead them to the water and teach them to drink! If you have a millennial in your family, take their early ballots, fill them out and mail them in, or take the ballot to the voting place and give it to the officials… no more worrying! https://t.co/wiDXP9sl60 — Peter Henry Fonda (@iamfonda) August 4, 2018 Yeah, that’s voter fraud all right: Hi @realDonaldTrump...

President Barack Obama’s campaign, eager to bank as many early votes as possible in Florida, is launching an unprecedented program to encourage supporters to vote by absentee ballot right away. The "Vote Now!" initiative aims to spread the word that voters can go to their local elections office, request an absentee ballot, and complete and return the ballot on the spot. That option has been available for years, but this is the first time a campaign has organized a statewide effort to promote the process."We’re encouraging voters to not wait and cast their ballot today," said Ashley Walker, Florida director...

Proposal would drop voting booths for mailed ballots on island If Councilwoman Brenda Ford had her say, Hawaii County would be the first in the state to abolish voting booths in favor of a vote-by-mail program. The County Council is set to discuss a nonbinding resolution Wednesday that would encourage the state Legislature to establish mail voting on a trial basis in the 2010, 2012 and 2014 elections for Hawaii County. If enacted, this county would follow Oregon and most of Colorado in mail voting.

A hearing is set for Monday on a lawsuit that seeks to compel Virginia election officials to count late absentee ballots from U.S. troops serving overseas.

For U.S. troops serving overseas, nothing comes easy. Not even voting. Military members may not have enough time to complete and mail in their absentee ballots for Tuesday's election, thanks to slow mail delivery, lack of information sharing among election officials, and procedural errors. In the 2006 elections, about a third of the close to 1 million absentee ballots requested by uniformed overseas voters were returned and tallied, essentially disenfranchising the remaining 600,000-plus service members, according to the federal Election Assistance Commission. Barack Obama and John McCain have called on state election officials to reduce the voting obstacles for preventing...

States' rules for absentee ballots vary; rules can change during election season 30 percent of overseas military ballots returned, counted in 2004, official estimates Mail from war zones sometimes does not get to county registrars in time Military ballots were a focus in the 2000 recount in Florida WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As absentee ballots pour in from U.S. troops overseas, officials are voicing concerns that many of those votes won't be counted. An absentee ballot from Arlington County in Virginia shows the names of the general election candidates. "It's dismal," said Rosemary Rodriguez, who works for the U.S. Elections Assistance...

A Republican Fairfax County supervisor is warning that more than 200 absentee ballots from members of the military could go uncounted because of a technicality. County Registrar Rokey Suleman II has set aside 255 federal write-in absentee ballots because they were submitted without a witness address, supervisor Patrick Herrity said Thursday at a press conference. A witness address is not required on a normal absentee ballot. But it is required on the federal write-in absentee ballots typically used by military members, Suleman said. "We're following the letter of Virginia law," Suleman said. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., in a statement circulated...

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,...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The work day all but over Saturday, Bombardier Hollie Speers did what a lot of Canadians are thinking about these days: she voted in an advance poll. Unlike the average voter, though, Bombardier Speers cast her ballot with an assault rifle slung over her shoulder, at a polling booth deep in Taliban country. She was part of a Herculean effort to ensure that hundreds of Canadian troops in Afghanistan get a chance to exercise their democratic franchise, between firefights and reconstruction projects. So far, the project has been a surprising success. The 75% poll turnout at Bombardier...

GOP wins one: Ohio ordered to accept McCain absentee ballot applications Posted by Reginald Fields October 02, 2008 15:13PM Categories: Real Time News The Ohio Supreme Court today ordered Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to accept absentee ballot applications that do not contain a checked box indicating the person is a qualified elector. The applications were mailed to registered Ohio voters by the presidential campaign of Republican Sen. John McCain. But thousands have been returned without a checkmark in a box stating the requester is qualified to vote in Ohio. Brunner, a Democrat, issued a directive last month telling county...

Here's the letter that was the first post for the thread on the link: We are urging all Democrats to VOTE BY MAIL! As of 9/5/08 the total Absentee Ballots Requested is 21,283 - 6,405 Democrats - 12,071 Republicans - 2,807 Other (No Party). We must improve our Absentee Ballot numbers in order to win in November!The Democratic Party of Sarasota County .AOLWebSuite .AOLPicturesFullSizeLink { height: 1px; width: 1px; overflow: hidden; } .AOLWebSuite a {color:blue; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer} Contribute www.sarasotadems.org Volunteer Sarasota Venice Englewood North Port September DEC Meeting Reminder - Sept 10, 2008 Dear LadyLuck, The September Democratic...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2008 --- For the Federal Voting Assistance Program, getting deployed troops and their families engaged in the current election season is a primary goal. Ahead of the November general election, FVAP, which fosters voting participation by uniformed and U.S. citizens abroad, is assisting eligible absentee voters who wish to cast ballots in their states’ primary election. “It’s important that voters participate in the upcoming primary elections,” said Polli Brunelli, the program's chief. “We have over 20 primaries occurring in February, so now is the time, if you’ve received your ballot, to vote and get it back...

Last Tuesday, 6 November, 2007, was Election Day here in Philadelphia. On an average Election Day there are between 100 and 150 absentee ballots from active duty service members. This election there were 8. Maybe only 8 men and women voted. Maybe this is much ado about nothing, but it does seem suspicious. Special Forces officer David Oh was on the ballot for a City Council At-Large seat. It is a close election. Votes are still being tallied. Currently only about a dozen votes separate him and his challenger. We are actively soliciting anyone from Philadelphia, PA who has a...

Each morning, four clerks take their seats at computers in the San Bernardino County registrar of voters office and reach for trays crammed with lavender envelopes. They'll spend the day there, checking absentee ballots and calling up digital images of voter signatures to verify that the ballots are genuine. They check about 6,000 a day. The hushed workroom in the back of a cavernous registrar's warehouse may lack the flurry of election night at a neighborhood polling place, but it is dramatically changing San Bernardino elections. Story continues below Steven Lewis / The Press-Enterprise Virginia Cooper stacks mail-in ballots while...

Jan. 24, 2005 19:36 PM supports giving Israelis right to absentee vote By GIL HOFFMAN Prime Minister Ariel Sharon supports passing a bill to allow Israelis living abroad the right to vote in Israeli elections. Sharon told the Likud faction on Monday that he supported such a bill in the past when it was raised by Moshe Arens and that the matter must be investigated. The faction decided to appoint a high level committee to look into the issue, composed of Justice and Immigrant Absorption Minister Tzipi Livni, coalition chairman Gideon Sa'ar and Knesset Law Committee Chairman Michael Eitan. The...

A careful review of the absentee votes in one Ohio county revealed that many more absentee votes were cast than there were absentee voters identified. All absentee voters must be identified as such by name and residence in the precinct poll books of the precinct in which they are registered.Over 100 precinct poll books in Trumbull Country were checked for absentee votes and that number of actual absentee voters was compared to the certified number of absentee votes.The five communities whose poll books were inspected for absentee vote overcount were: Warren City (311), Howland Township (138), Newton Falls (34), Girard...

NPR just gave Wisconsin to sKerry. Kerry has 13,000 more votes than Bush. NPR won't give Iowa and New Mexico to Bush even though his final tally gives him a margin of 12,000 and 16,000, respectively. Their stated reason: there are still absentee ballots to count. Question: Does Wisconsin NOT have absentee ballots yet to add to the totals?

Per Karl Rove on Hannity & Colmes interview, in Florida Republicans lead in absentee ballots while Democrats lead in early voting. Taken together, the GOP holds a lead. I know there's been much back-and-forth over this issue, and it's hard to know whether this is disinformation or legitimate data.

PENNSYLVANIA: ILLEGAL PA PRISONER ABSENTEE BALLOT SCANDAL UNCOVERED Chris Lilik 10/31 12:47 AM Things could not be stickier in PA over military absentee ballots, voter registration fraud, controversial polling locations, and now a huge scandal has come to light involving prisoner absentee ballots! According to a new Delaware County Times story, Congressman Curt Weldon and State Rep Steve Barrar are outraged over allegations that unsupervised individuals were allowed to go from prisoner to prisoner filling out their absentee ballots! Weldon says a federal lawsuit is going to be filed challenging the legitimacy of prison absentee ballots. In PA it is...

Soldiers' ballots arriving from overseas in record numbers October 29, 2004   Our troops serving in Iraq and elsewhere around the world are keeping local election officials busy. A record number of soldiers who call Bell and Coryell Counties home have voted.   Bell County Clerk Vada Sutton has received close to 5,000 ballots from our troops stationed in Iraq and other bases overseas. “I had more this year than I ever have,” she says. And they're still coming in. Bell County election officials continue to open ballots from our soldiers. In Coryell County, where a portion of Fort...