Iowans Voting by Absentee Ballot in Record Numbersby Linda Thieman
According to Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver, Iowans are voting by absentee ballot in record numbers.
Through last Tuesday, Culver's office showed 314,600 Iowa voters had requested absentee ballots. That number is more than 36,000 higher than the number of absentee ballots cast in that fiasco known as the 2000 presidential selection.
In 2000, 21% of the votes in Iowa were cast via absentee ballot. And to think, I went out early on a cold, snowy morning to wait in a long line to vote. Not this year! I've already turned in my absentee ballot, and I am proud to say that I connected my arrow for Art Small and Joyce Schulte. Oh, yeah, and Kerry, too.
**Click here to download your Iowa absentee ballot request form. You then send it in to your county auditor's office at the courthouse.
**Click here to get the address of your county auditor. Just find your county on the map of Iowa and click on the map.
Iowa's DEADLINE to Register: Mailed By October 18th or Delivered by October 23rd. Click here to download an Iowa voter registration form.