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Lifelong Democrat. I'm 3 for 10 on presidential elections since 1968, so I need a winning streak to get above .500 before I'm to old to check the box on an absentee ballot. The "skinny kid with big ears and a funny name" is just the man to get it started.

Election Problems in Alabama

by uffdalib

Wed Oct 20, 2004 at 09:36:28 PM PDT

Ala. Voter Registration Beset by Backlog
Thursday October 21, 2004 5:01 AM
By JAY REEVES
Associated Press Writer

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Counties across Alabama struggled to deal with a backlog of thousands of last-minute voter registrations as the state's longtime head of voter registration quit Wednesday less than two weeks before Election Day.

Secretary of State Nancy Worley's office also was attempting to sort out a record-keeping discrepancy that left uncertain the actual number of registered voters in the state - thought to be around 2.54 million.

MISSING- One Million Voter Registration Cards

by uffdalib

Tue Oct 12, 2004 at 07:40:33 PM PDT

Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer has sent out about 1.5 million voter registration cards in the past seven months, almost four times the number usually sent out in two years. Progressive and conservative groups are both working hard; the ground war is alive and well here in the Gopher State.

A Republican, Kiffmeyer has refused to campaign for candidates in order to avoid the appearance of bias. Even so, Kiffmeyer has been accused of trying to suppress registration and turnout by printing cards in insufficient quantities as well as other changes to election rules and systems.

Now the time window for pre-registration before election day has ended, and she says only 125,000 cards have been returned. Are the 1.3 million cards unaccounted for still blank and unused? Or is something more sinister going on?


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