Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Getting Started a Little Early

The local newspaper is reporting Early Voting is being done in record numbers this year in North Carolina. As of the end of the day Monday, October 25, more than 400,000 people had voted early. That's about 7.3% of the total registered population of the state.

While people are getting a jump on the voting process, others, notably in Florida, are busy getting an early start in other ways.

Their Early Voting process isn't going so smoothly.

* Touch screen voting in parts of Southern Florida is moving so slowly that it's going at a rate of six voters per hour.

* As many as 58,000 ballots that were supposed to mailed out to Broward County residents on Oct. 7 and 8 could be missing.

And The Washington Post has wondered:
By all accounts, Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own.

As if that wasn't enough, John Dean, former White House council and star witness in the Watergate Hearings, is now prediciting the possiblity of major post-election chaos if things are close again this year. Dean was interviewed on MSNBC's "Countdown" last night. Scroll down the page of Olbermann's Bloggermann blog and read his summary of the interview and his lasting impressions.

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