Saturday, October 18, 2008

Early Voting in Ohio

Joel Stein, at Time, checked out Ohio's early in-person voting to see what these early birds are like - the results were quite amusing. Here an excerpt:

I was interested less in which candidate Hamilton County will vote for than in finding out what kind of person votes a month before the election. To my shock, none of them told me they were voting early "to avoid old people." Equally surprising, no one found that question to be strange. The voters were, however, dubious about my professionalism when I asked whether "people sometimes call them anal"--though 36% said yes.

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