electiononlineWeekly - "With just over 50 days to go till the general election in November, states across the country have begun asking their registered voters to vote early or vote-by-mail. In Idaho, Ada County Clerk Dave Navarro will begin mailing out absentee voting applications to every registered voter next week. Officials in Porter County, Indiana announced that locations will be open 12 hours per day for the 30 days leading up to the election for early voting. Elections officials in Ohio began mailing out absentee voting applications this week, including almost 900,000 in Cuyahoga County and 375,000 in Montgomery County. Davis County, Utah will be offering early voting for the first time and hoping the 10 days of early voting will push voter turnout to 85 or possibly 90 percent for the county. Legislation signed into law this year in Kansas expanded early voting and county clerks are working to expand and create early voting sites throughout the state. Officials in Washington County, Tennessee are preparing for more than 10,000 voters to vote early and are therefore extending hours at early voting sites by 7 hours per week. And with all this early voting, much of it by mail, the U.S. Postal Service issued a statement this week encouraging voters to turn in those ballots as early as possible, but at least five days prior to the election to ensure on-time delivery. The postal service is predicting more than 31 million ballots to be mailed this fall." 9/11/08
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