Early voting important factor in 2008
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VOTER PREDICAMENT: For many people, the question this year isn't just which presidential candidate to vote for, it's when. The race is so unsettled that today's champ can be tomorrow's chump.
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Early voting for next month's  presidential election began in Florida on Monday, with  Democrats in particular urging supporters to use their early  ballot as a means of avoiding a repeat of the recount fiasco in  the 2000 election.
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It isnÃ¢ÂÂt clear how important it is for officials in the state of Washington to keep up with the Joneses. But when it comes to the 2008 presidential nominating process, they showed this week that they are determined for Washington to keep up with the numerous states that are rushing to Ã¢ÂÂfront-loadÃ¢ÂÂ next yearÃ¢ÂÂs primary and caucus calendar.
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Contenders in the 2008 US presidential race campaign in Iowa, a key early state in picking each party's nominee.
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A look at three of the early contests for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations in 2008:
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Early voting began Monday in closely watched Florida and three other states with the election little more than two weeks away. Texas, Colorado and Arkansas joined Florida in casting
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The Iowa caucuses are typically low-turnout affairs that are notoriously hard to predict, but this year, preelection polls accurately captured the underlying dynamics of both parties' contests. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois appealed to a change-oriented Democratic electorate, and former Arkansas ...
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Early voting for next month&#39;s presidential election began in Florida on Monday, with Democrats in particular urging supporters to use their early ballot as a means of avoiding
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Major union endorsements made early in the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential primaries:
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(November 2, 2004, 6:54 pm) There are so many things on this year&#39;s election ballot, all of them important, but the one result everyone is waiting to hear is who will lead this country over the next four years.
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Some states have allowed primary votes to be cast as long as a month ago. In California, for example, up to half of all primary votes may be cast early.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Election Day is still two weeks away, but voters across the state have the option Monday of beginning to cast their ballots early in this pivotal battleground state...
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MIAMI -- Even though in some places the wait was as long as four hours, nearly 2 million Floridians have voted early, either by standing in long lines or by casting an absentee ballot -- more than twice the number of Floridians who voted in the 2000
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote as early as Thursday on a bill that would require a paper record for electronic voting machines. Representative Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, which has 216 cosponsors in the 435-member House, would require that all e-voting machines used in the November 2008 U.S. elections be accompanied by a voter-verified paper ballot. E-voting critics have been calling for paper-trail ballots for several years, arguing there's no way to audit e-voting machines without them. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, said on his Web site that he's pleased the House is set to move forward with the legislation. His bill would require random audits of voting results in 3 percent of all U.S. precincts, and it would prohibit e-voting machines that include wireless or Internet connections. While groups like Common Cause and VerifiedVoting.org have called for paper trails, groups like the National Federation of the Blind have resisted efforts to slow the adoption of e-voting machines, saying e-voting allows blind people to vote without assistance for the first time. The Holt bill faces several obstacles to becoming law, said Matt Zimmerman, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supports the bill. "It is not at all clear whether the bill will pass or, even if it does, whether a substantively similar companion bill will then pass the Senate," Zimmerman wrote on the EFF blog. "Like it or not, with election officials arguing that they're running out of time to implement wholesale changes, this likely amounts to Congress's only attempt to make any serious improvements to the nation's election procedures ahead of the 2008 presidential election." Common Cause sent an alert to members Wednesday morning, urging them to contact lawmakers in support of the bill, said Mary Boyle, a Common Cause spokeswoman. "This is the last chance for Congress to ensure that ballots are backed by paper records in the critical 2008 presidential election," she said.
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Early voting for the US presidential election began in Florida on Monday as activists urged people to opt for early ballots to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco
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Rasmussen Reports - Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson (R) has moved a step closer to formally announcing his bid for the White House in 2008. Twenty-two percent (22%) of Americans say they will definitely vote for him if he&#39;s on the ballot in 2008. Thirty percent (30%) will definitely vote against him. That net deficit of eight percentage points (22% for minus 30% against) is better than all other candidates in the race except for Barack Obama.
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Rasmussen Reports - Thirty-three percent (33%) of American voters say they&#39;ll definitely vote for Senator Barack Obama (D) if he&#39;s on the Presidential ballot in November 2008. That&#39;s unchanged from a month ago, but the number who say they&#39;ll definitely vote against the charismatic newcomer from Illinois has increased by five points to 38%. Still, Obama enjoys the highest level of base support and net support among any of the leading candidates.