Does anyone have any RELIABLE info as to how the 'absentee voters' have voted?
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I think you mean early voting.  They can only use exit polls to give you a feel for that.  Absentee votes are usually last after election day.
588605
Very clever!\n\nI'm voting for them now. Return the favour! :)\n\nBy the way, you know you can vote for yourself again, right?
109140
No.  The only way would be if you kept the stub they gave you and were given access to the ballots.  I think you would need a court order to do that if they still exist.  Yet we believe the votes are being accurately counted, even after Florida and Bush's first election.  Scary!!!!!
449912
The votes were counted, it just didn't turn out like some people were hoping for. Anyway, they do have the right (freedom of speech) but they're credibility on the issue goes right out the window since if they didn't vote
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http://www3.capwiz.com/y/dbq/officials/\n\nit's a yahoo site, with a searchable database on all elected state/federal and i think some town/city/local government stuff as well. You can look up specific bills and see who voted how, or what a particular person has voted for and how they voted. So far, it's always been accurate what I've seen.
884252
The first answer must not have read the whole question.  The link below is the Unofficial Results on the Louisiana Secretary of State's website.  The official results should be available in a week or two.  They have to finish counting provisional and absentee ballots
490478
I have been trying to figure out how they got elected the first time, the second time was a joke... must be those big districts with low population and ALOT of rednecks...\n\nYes I voted.\nYes I will vote next time. If more people took the time to care enough to vote, maybe we would have a better edge in keeping idiots out of that seat...
715483
It is very disconcerting to hear that many of the new voting machines do not give receipts, or copies to the voters, or to anyone else.  If there is a malfunction or fraud, there will be no way to verify the results and there will be no possibility for a recount.  This may cast a big cloud over the election for voters in either party, but especially for the losers.  I don't like that news.
42546
It's supposed to be random and taken from voter rolls. Sounds like you're unlucky.
768223
Me...and hoping for the do nothing Republican wipe out too.  I blame Bush for that!\n\nAnyone who doesn't vote tomorrow has nothing to say as far as I am concerned...and how we wound up with Bush in the first place.\nYOU HAVE A VOICE, USE IT.\nSuffragettes worked and died as well as soldiers in all wars...for you to have that right.\nVOTE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7th
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There is one thing for  sure. There should always be a paper vote. There is no way to verify results without one.  Do not use a ballot with chads, just a plain piece of paper. with a hole punched in it. That eliminates the BS we all suffered during the 2000 election. Next, the ballots should be counted right there,  With representatives from both parties present. Not allowed by law to be moved. And finally, All voters must present a voter I.D. That would resolve most voter fraud.
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Every one that I have ever attended was open to everyone.  You can call the party HQ for location, etc.  If you call after hours on election day, there is usually a message that tells you the info.  Go to the internet site and it will be posted.  This is a lot of fun and they always need volunteers to keep the refreshments going or to decorate before the party.  Take off work the following day so you can get some sleep.  Sometimes the election results come in late and no one wants to leave!  Have fun!!
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Thank you for inspiring me to vote...I am 54 and have never missed voting.  My family is heavily into flag waving, are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and my aunt even worked as as secretary/receptionist on Capitol Hill for 50 years.  We got to tour the White House and watch the Senate in action with special passes as a kid.  I even went to the oval office once.  I wanted to grow up to be the first woman president.\n\nThis time though, it's different.  I live in a district that the Democratic party has written off.  I live in a state that the Democratic party has written off.  They wouldn't even spend the money to get a candidate listed on the ballot to run for Senate.  \n\nThe last election, our polling place was moved OUT OF OUR PRECINCT.  The mail says we live too far on the edge of our county for paper delivery same day.  \n\nI've even worked as a poll worker for elections.  I know the radio will say who won our state before our ballots even reached the courthouse for tallying.\n\nThe last election we used touch screen voting.  There was NO PAPER TRAIL.  No receipt that you voted.  No way to know if your vote was correctly registered on the machine.  There is absolutely nothing to recount.  I would say most poll workers do not own a computer themselves, yet are managing the votes on them.\n\nI have NO CONFIDENCE that my vote will count at all.  When Pres. Bush announced that he has NO worries that the Republicans will maintain the Hill, I believe he means he has people to enter the voting machines and make sure he's correct.  There is absolutely no way to know if they have been tampered with.  The party with power does not have to yield again, unless we use paper ballots which can be recounted, and of course scanned by a computer to count, which will make the process timely enough.\n\nI have always believed in this country.\n\nThey lost me when exit polls showed how people ACTUALLY voted, yet the final count did not reflect that.\n\nYour shred of hope will push me out the door.  I am ill today, and thought this may be the first time I missed.\n\nI belong in the Senate, not Senator Lugar.  He advertised with millions of dollars, WITHOUT a candidate against him.  What a wasteful man.  He is supposed to be a Rhoades scholar, but didn't digest the facts about WMD correctly at all and led us into this war which has killed thousands of innocents.  If he had been in any danger of going himself, or any members of his family in deep need of college financing through the military, perhaps he would have poured over the reasons for war more thoroughly.\n\nSorry, for any mispellings, I usually proofread, as I'm so particular.  I would be an excellent, conscientious Senator.  But, I better go vote.  I only wish it would count.\n\nPlease don't blame Americans if the results are not logical.  Our voting process will not stand up to the standards former President Jimmy Carter uses when monitoring elections.\n\nWish truth, justice, and the American Way Luck!  Hopefully, I won't be patted down there, and my paper with my write in candidate taken! Ha!  That is the only way to vote other than Republican in our corner of Indiana. . .
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No.  Because voting polls are open between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM and then the votes have to be tallied.\n\nIf the Reps win, we will know for sure that the elections are rigged.  That would not surprise me after all that I have seen in my years on this planet.  Sad.
959692
Absentee ballots are often tossed.  Make sure you call to see if your vote was counted.
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I wish you would quit advertising this.  And please do have them verify California elections if things go weird. The addresses are on voter's registration cards.\n\nMind you California doesn't knowingly give driver's licenses to illegals anymore, although it used to, and many still are eligible to renew by mail. \n\nThis issue does have me concerned.\n\nWhat on earth is wrong with making sure those who register to vote are eligible to vote?  Yet the Democrats fight verification every time it comes up.  The last time was in a proposed amendment to the Senate immigration bill.
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Yes, i heard all day today how people were given the conditional ballets because many of the machines were malfunctioning and in other precincts many dems were turned away. I have a feeling that republicans won't want to request a recount after all, cuz they'll realize all the cheating they created and they don't want to be embarrassed when it turns out they suppressed millions of votes, all of them democrats!