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To: LindyBill who started this subject9/20/2004 1:48:32 PM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
The first votes for President will be cast Thursday.
INCOMING! SEPTEMBER 20, 2004.
By Dennis DiClaudio and Will Leitch

You think John Kerry is running out of time? You have no idea: The first votes of the presidential election will be cast Thursday.

The great state of Iowa -- the place that essentially kicked Kerry's campaign off in the first place -- will cast the first absentee votes for President starting Thursday. Absentee voting is becoming more commonplace, with people mailing in votes and showing up at specially designated polling places.


This causes alarm in some people, because absentee votes are considered easy to manipulate. (More than 500,000 were cast in Florida in 2000. Just saying.) This also causes alarm in some people because, I dunno, have you ever met any Iowans? Why do we give these guys first crack? We once spent a weekend in Clive, Iowa, and the bars closed at 10. How can we possibly trust these people to help elect a president?

The good news: The kickoff of the early voting will be announced by a blood-curdling Howard Dean scream. So that'll be fun.
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