Reply #41: ND: Counties stampede for mail elections

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Twenty counties are planning to take advantage of 2007 legislation permitting the conduct of general elections by mail. While several counties have used previous legislation to conduct primaries by mail, 2008 will be the first opportunity to do so in a general election.

Participating in mail balloting of some kind in 2008 will be Adams, Dunn, Emmons, Grant, Griggs, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McHenry, McIntosh, McKenzie, Mercer, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey, Ransom, Sargent, Sheridan, Towner and Walsh. Steele County may join the group this month.

In the 2004 presidential election, these counties accounted for 48,000 votes, or 15 percent of the 316,000 recorded in that election. It is obvious that most of the counties planning a mail ballot are small and rural. If the 2008 election proceeds smoothly, it is likely that more of the larger counties will start mail balloting in 2010.

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http://www.jamestownsun.com/articles/index.cfm?id=59281§ion=Opinion