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BLOODIED BUT DEFIANT, SOUTH AFRICANS VOW . . . WE WILL VOTE_BOMBERS DON’T STOP VOTE

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By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, April 26, 1994

GERMISTON—Dennis Makubela will vote. Someone almost killed him yesterday, but he will vote.

Mavis Phungula will vote. Someone almost killed her too, when a bomb—the worst of many that exploded across the country yesterday—destroyed a crowded taxi stand in this mining town near Johannesburg. But she will vote.

It is not known if Poppy Skosana will vote. She was too distraught to talk, for the bomb had severed her son Dickson in two and thrown the top half of him, still in the bucket seat of his taxi, 50 yards down Hudson Street.

But Philemon Maseko will vote. He was standing on Hudson Street when half of Dickson Skosana in the bucket seat landed on top of him. He was taken to the same hospital as the others, and he will vote.

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April 21, 2009
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The last rally

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I voted at 8:37 a.m. today in Ridgewood, N.J. I did not have any problem whatsoever. Meanwhile, the video above was Sen. Barack Obama addressing more than 60,000 supporters in the last rally before today’s voting.

Update: A friend sent me e-mail saying “I got out early and voted. I was there almost and hour early and when they opened the doors there were several hundred people in line.”

Another friend, Jim Sleeper, wrote about his experience here: “Polling places in New York City open at 6:00 am, and when I arrived at mine at 5:45 a.m. at least 600 people were on line, stretching from the school door near East 33rd Street and Third Avenue back to the end of the block on Second Avenue, and then down the avenue to 32nd Street. By the time I left after casting my vote, at 6:45 or so, it had grown light out, and there were at least another 600 people waiting on line.”

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November 4, 2008
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Block the vote

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The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us Block The Vote! Oh No You Didn’t!:

Be Careful how you vote! This article and the one below it highlights the subtle, not so subtle, and beyond annoying rules, regs, and procedures that Robert Kennedy Jr. believes are part of a Voter Deterrence Strategy that could tip this election to a false victory.

At the very least we have the setup of a tight election begging to be contested,resulting in a recount that will make the 2000 Florida “Hanging Chad” train wreck look like a teaser.

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snopes.com: Voting a Straight Ticket

POSTED BY WWW.EILEENDAVIS.BLOGSPOT.COM THE DAVIS REPORT – THE VOICE OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE CAPITAL CITY

October 21, 2008
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Not over till

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The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message:

Make no mistake, all this punditry predicting that this election is as good as over is not a good thing. As a woman of a certain age who has disected the predicted and actual outcome of every election since 1972 all this outcome predicting is endangering the race and risks influencing the voter turnout.

Truth is to win, the winner and his team in the field, need to stay hungry right up to the last day of the campaign. Float the idea it is a done deal and last minute field campaign workers lose their hungry edge and start the party early. Float the the idea it is a done deal for your candidate and some are less inclined to vote ” no matter what” b/c the idea is floated it isn’t quite so urgent.

In an election with the potential to be as close as this one, this could be decisive. Journalists need to remember they should report the news not create or influence it. Click on the article below to read more on this important subject. And Don’t forget to Vote-no matter what!

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President Obama? by Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writer

POSTED BY WWW.EILEENDAVIS.BLOGSPOT.COM THE DAVIS REPORT – THE VOICE OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE CAPITAL CITY.

October 21, 2008
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Follow all instructions when you vote

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My friend Tamara recently alerted me to this diary over at DailyKos. The diarist is sounding the alarm over a potential source of confusion with the voting systems in North Carolina. The gist of it is that, under North Carolina law, voting a straight party ticket doesn’t register any vote for president or vice president. You have to vote for president and THEN you can vote a straight party ticket for the remaining races.

This is a well-known problem. It even has its own Snopes page. The problem causes North Carolina to have the highest under-vote for president in the country, and the law that creates this situation ought to be repealed.

But the problem is a perfect illustration of the rationale for one of my 10 tips for avoiding problems when you vote: Follow all instructions.

Ballot instructions in North Carolina alert the voter to the straight-party-ticket issue. The problem is that too few people take the time to read the instructions. (Which also brings up another of my tips: Take your time.)

So let this be a lesson to you no matter where you vote. Take your time. Read the instructions and follow them. Otherwise, you could end up throwing your vote away.

Cross-posted from Facebook.

October 20, 2008
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