Moreover, some 375, 000 Californians have already sent in absentee ballots which may now be invalid.
Both camps would then accept the counting of overseas absentee ballots reported by midnight Friday.
Political operatives cast absentee ballots in the names of those who are incapacitated in nursing homes.
On Saturday, election officials said they had received 40, 737 absentee ballots from Mexicans living abroad.
His campaign has asked friendly county officials to send it lists of voters requesting absentee ballots.
State officials on Tuesday afternoon also extended until Wednesday the deadline for requesting absentee ballots.
Democrats had hoped enough provisional and absentee ballots might be available to overcome Bush in Ohio.
People are looking to vote, but have changed addresses, don't know how to change absentee ballots, etc.
Residents have been encouraged to cast absentee ballots to avoid long lines and polling place problems on Tuesday.
The Troy, New York, graduate student had planned for voters to mail him absentee ballots to verify the selections.
The Coleman campaign has maintained that there has been no uniform standard in reviewing and counting rejected absentee ballots.
About 21, 000 either mailed in absentee ballots or voted early, some at satellite polling places in other Louisiana cities.
Florida is set to announce the winner this weekend, after absentee ballots are counted, barring court orders postponing that timetable.
In 2008, more than 400, 000 absentee ballots were thrown out nationwide, according to data from the Election Administration and Voting Survey.
The results of that election may not be known for two weeks, as election officials count more than 1 million absentee ballots.
They want county election supervisors to post signs in polling places and include notes in absentee ballots informing voters about the change.
Certainly, absentee ballots from overseas will be counted after the certification deadline.
McLean also said voters no longer have to give a reason why they should need absentee ballots, which has encouraged early voting.
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Absentee ballots come in to central elections offices in each county, but, under state law, they must be counted at individual precincts.
"We're going to argue that all of the absentee ballots cast in Seminole County have been tainted, " attorney Gerald Richman said Saturday.
So even though they were not going back to Texas, they could still have obtained absentee ballots based on their last address.
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In Florida, a state with 29 electoral votes, absentee ballots are still being counted and the race remains too close to call.
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It's going to be one of those elections, probably, where they have to just wait for all the absentee ballots to come in.
For example, there was Friday night's announcement by Minneapolis's director of elections that she'd forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car.
In the aftermath of the November 2000 election there were complaints that many military absentee ballots were being disqualified for lack of dated postmarks.
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Early voting and absentee ballots will ensure that, by the time election day comes around, a significant amount of votes will already be in.
Counties where he led the regular vote have about twice as many uncounted overseas absentee ballots as do counties won by his Democratic rival, Gore.
During a hearing Monday, Lewis asked numerous questions about absentee ballots.
The earliest the overseas absentee ballots will be certified is Saturday.
Blackwell said he could not say how many provisional and absentee ballots needed to be counted, but he said estimates were between 175, 000 and 250, 000.
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