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  • From: Christiane Voisin <voisc AT ils.unc.edu>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: best place to vote early in Durham
  • Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:19:46 -0400 (EDT)

I like this explanation best of all so far... the NYT digests always throw
in some timely quote:

> - QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
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> "I don't know if I'll die tomorrow."
> - ALICIA BALSEIRO, 70, explaining why she voted early in Florida.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Michael Warren wrote:

> Don't understand the hoopla about early voting either. I've voted for 25
> years and have never waited in line any significant amount of time. More
> often the poll workers were trying to stay awake and fight boredom. There
> has long been a process in place for people who were going to be out of
> town or for the elderly. It's nothing new. Me thinks this is mostly a fad
> that will fade away the day after the election. And while the numbers of
> voters is up a good deal this year, it's still a pathetically small
> percentage of those eligible.
> mw
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> This whole no-excuses-absentee/"early" voting thing is a wonderful idea,
> but it kinda mystifies me why so many people are willing to stand in
> line for hours & hours to vote "early" at one of a handful of places
> when there will be dozens-to-hundreds of better-prepared, more equally
> subdivided places to vote on Tuesday.
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