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Voting Begins in Iowa

Voting Begins in Iowa Battleground
By ELIZABETH HARTFIELD
Voting began today in Iowa, the first battleground state where voters can cast their ballot in the presidential election.
Iowa is one of 32 states (plus the District of Columbia) that allows no-excuse early voting, meaning that any registered voter can head to the polls before election day and cast their ballot. Idaho and South Dakota were the first states to start early voting last week, but Iowa is the first of the key swing states that could determine the outcome of the election where voting has begun.
Ohio is the next swing state to begin early voting. Polls there open on Tuesday, Oct. 2.





Boobie the Rocket Dog
September 28th, 2012
I give up.
My participation on this blog will be limited to weekends when the computer I use runs Vista.
Effective now.
Goddamn ZEDO.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 28th, 2012
So do these early voting results get tallied and published before the election? If so, sounds like yet another dim scheme to jigger the electorate.
Livin on Winchell-Mahoney Time
September 28th, 2012
Cast my votes already. Now I’m working on getting other people to make sure they vote.
Dr. Tar
September 28th, 2012
Sent my ballot in on Monday.
I always tell people not to talk politics with me unless they have voted. Then they can take responsability for their candidate.
Menderman
September 28th, 2012
I don’t like the idea of early voting. It opens the door to fraud amd manipulation. Also, a LOT can happen between now and November 6th. My little brother has a interesting plan…A 24 hour Voting period. It would start the same time in Maine and Hawaii (GMT), and no results released until that 24 hour period is up.
NeeNee
September 28th, 2012
Yesterday’s Sioux City Journal mentioned my western Iowa town. Except that the Hispanic percentage is horribly low. It is NOT 40%—it is 70%. Our elementary school is 75% Hispanic, middle school is about 60% and high school approaching half. Our once beautiful little town now features older & some newer homes packed with families, cars everywhere, widespread meth use among Latinos along with drug dealing and gang infiltration. Ah, but the politically correct city fathers will just beam in the name of diversity, saying ‘we need these people.’ Our city council passed a law several years ago saying that new real estate purchases cannot be used to warehouse people. In practice, however, we know first-hand that all Latinos have to do is say two words: extended family. Questions stop dead, and authorities tiptoe away. We have two major packing plants, one of which is slated to close next year. But I digress . . . below is a clip from SC Journal, quoting our County Auditor—who, to her credit as a Dem, is upset about the way early voting is being implemented:
“In Denison, a city of 8,300 that is more than 40 percent Latino, the Obama campaign petitioned to require voting at La Jalisciense Tienda grocery store and in an empty former Mexican restaurant. Crawford County Auditor Terri Martens said she worried that non-Latinos who do not shop or eat at those locations wouldn’t feel comfortable voting there.
“It seems like the purpose that this group is using it for is to yank one sector of the public out of the voting crowd and make it ultra-convenient for them,” Martens said. “My job is to make it convenient for all voters. I’m having a difficult time with this.”
“Martens said she also was frustrated with the tactics the Obama operatives used to secure voting at locations they wanted.
“It was, ‘If you do this and you guarantee us these days, we won’t file any more petitions,’” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Come on.’ It was disappointing as a registered Democrat myself.”
A relative worked the primaries and experienced a few diverse voters who, when the names were checked, had already voted absentee. They were quite vocal about their right to vote, so they were allowed to. But when situations like this arise—for any race voter—the practice is to allow, but isolate the vote in a brown envelope where it will be compared to absentee ballots at the election canvas afterward. Only one of the two votes will be counted.
Fox News last night mentioned the Iowa early voting, along with tabulations that showed Dems cast 109,000 early votes with Repubs only with 20,000. Says it all, doesn’t it?
Stranded in Sonoma
September 28th, 2012
@Boobie — Remember, this is BFH’s way to help pay for his blog. I hate commercials too but I figure that a few pop-unders won’t kill me if it helps support a blog I like.
Personally, I’d rather have the pop-unders than all of the video ads I get on other sites that cause the page to take a long time to load. And then they auto-start and rupture your eardrums. Not to mention that when 3 or 4 play at once it’s doesn’t help their cause; I can’t understand anything through the cacophony and I just close all the new tabs. Their effort is wasted.
I’m willing to cut BFH some slack on this. It IS his blog and we’re just guests here.
Drackxman
September 28th, 2012
The Idiots Out Wandering Around will vote for Hussein…. Don’t wanna lose their Ethanol Subsides.
iris354
September 28th, 2012
Let the voter fraud begin. God help the Republic.