Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Saturday, August 21, 2004

Absenteeism Revisited

Here's another one to add to the list of shenanigans surrounding Florida absentee ballots: Andante has been reading The Daily Kos more often than I've had a chance to, and Kos contributor murfmom raised a point about mailing her Dade County ballot: "The clerks at my local post office confirmed my suspicion that extra postage is necessary for delivery. You need $0.49 of postage, not a $0.37 stamp as printed in the official instructions!!!" Talk about nickel-and-diming voters to death! This could mean a whole bunch of ballots will never make it to their destinations. Or maybe just the ones from the elderly black voters' homes and not the ones from the Republicans targeted by the flyers...

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