Californians boot governor

Arkansas Democrat Gazette
10-8-03

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HIGH ABSENTEE VOTING - Absentee voting was unusually high. California’s 58 counties were already processing the 2.2 million absentee ballots turned in before Tuesday. Statewide, voters had requested 3.2 million absentee ballots, and many of these will not be counted until after election day. Civil rights groups set up a hot line to resolve voting problems and had received about 300 calls, said Vicky Beasley, deputy national field director of People for the American Way Foundation, a national civil liberties organization. Many callers said they were confused about where to vote, and a handful complained that machines failed to record votes or that ballots did not line up with candidates’ names.

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