The Dispatch wrote 4,134 cast ballots for president
Saturday, October 4, 2008
By Mark Niquette
Ohio State University student Lauren Slutzky didn’t want to risk having to wait for hours in a long line to vote on Election Day. Eddie Booker, 68, of Columbus, has never voted before but wanted to be a part of history this year.
Both are among the thousands of Franklin County residents who went to Veterans Memorial during the opening days of early absentee voting this week, getting registered if they weren’t on the rolls and casting ballots for the Nov. 4 election.
According to the county board of elections, of the 4,134 voters who cast absentee ballots through yesterday, 668 also registered to vote in what some are calling the “Golden Week” and others a recipe for fraud.
That’s because until Monday’s voter-registration deadline in Ohio, citizens can register to vote and immediately cast an absentee ballot. Absentee voting continues until the day before the election.
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