Ms. ARNWINE: Yes, and I think it's critical that people, if they're in Houston, Atlanta, Massachusetts, Chicago, Seattle--that they're all aware that they can vote from where they're living right now, that they do not have to come to New Orleans, that they actually can call and receive an--request an absentee ballot by phone, that they can fax the request for that absentee ballot, that that absentee ballot can be faxed to them.

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He is an American citizen who twice cast an absentee ballot for Obama, but he believes the presidential visit here now is a mistake.

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If I submit my absentee ballot in the election, I will do so for no reason beyond conviction and enjoyment.

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We now encourage those disengaged to participate even loosening the requirements for identification, residency, or the ease of casting an absentee ballot.

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Jennifer Krell Davis, communication director for the department, predicted that roughly an equal number of Florida voters would vote by absentee ballot.

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He also said a 1997 case involving the Miami mayor's race, where the entire absentee ballot pool was thrown out because some ballots were fraudulently cast, provides Clark with the legal basis for invalidating all the absentee votes in Seminole County.

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