First of all, Faulkner said there were only about 125
absentee voters in the district, meaning Baez would have to take 91 of those, or 72 %, which doesn't seem likely based on the results tonight.
Not exact matches
Two weeks later, I read this piece
in Salon about the race to succeed Duke Cunningham
in California: seeing a deficit
in absentee voters, «Republican activists «poured» into the
district and searched a Republican Party database that could tell them everything about
voters from their personal hobbies and professional interests to the brand of toothpaste they're likely to use.
The Hotline has two very hot documents from the Republican database - driven turnout machine, one describing their (apparently very successful)
absentee ballot program
in Michigan and the other listing sample
voter contact numbers by state and
district.
So, rest assured, 14th Council
District absentee voters in the heart of the Congolese jungle or rural Nepal, your vote will be counted.
Of the 200
absentee ballots issued to
voters in District 2, only 56 belong to registered Democrats; 26 were filed by
voters with no party affiliation.
Of the 12,729 eligible
voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510
absentee ballots were issued
in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the
Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.
Twenty - seven states and the
District of Columbia have permanent
absentee voting,
in which
voters can vote
absentee without offering a reason for doing so, according to the NCSL website.