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   Charlie E.   wrote: [re California]   
      
      
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   >Actually, they are calling on making more and more of the vote as mail   
   >in, as it saves time and costs at the polling places, and lets them   
   >spread out the counting period.   
      
   "...a new Field Poll survey estimates that, for the first time ever    
   in a general election, more than half of the votes today will have    
   been cast before election day."   
      
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/02/MNFT1G5B8E.DTL   
      
      
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