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  Charlie E.   wrote: [re California]  
    
    
  [older quotage deleted]  
    
    
  >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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