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Students face ballot challenges in battleground district
Students face ballot challenges in battleground district
EXCLUSIVE: Republican attorneys challenged the absentee ballots of 50 Grinnell College students today, an act that could have an impact on the battle for control of the Iowa House of Representatives.
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Remainders: The night before
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... in McLean. John McCain delivers his closing argument in the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page. The Palin pranksters talk to Harry Smith. Barone plays an equal-oppourtunity optimist. Edsall provides a guide to watching the results. Pollster.com's Steve Lombardo projects Obama. Sidoti lays out a nightmare scenario for Democrats where Obama loses the electoral college while winning the popular vote. Iowa Independent finds that students in Grinnell College are getting challenged hard. ...

The Daily Muck
TPMMuckraker — ... Students at Grinnell College in a swing district in Iowa had their absentee ballots challenged Tuesday by Republican attorneys. In 2004, the House race in the district was won by just 300 votes by Rep. Eric Palmer (D) who now faces the same Republican challenger. Grinnell students are historically Democrats, and the 50 challenged ballots could impact this tight race. (Iowa Independent) ...

GOP Officials Trying To Disqualify Iowa Student Ballots
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — The Iowa GOP appears to be distancing itself from a Monday effort to challenge thousands of student ballots at Grinnell College. Spokesman Nathan Treloar told the Huffington Post on Tuesday that while he has "seen reports coming out that its Republican lawyers" objecting to student ballots, he claimed "this could be a local thing" at the county level. Asked whether the state party has encouraged or endorsed the strategy, in which students who did not register to vote by affixing a PO box to their official university mailing address are being challenged, ...

GOP Officials Trying To Disqualify Iowa Student Ballots
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The Iowa GOP appears to be distancing itself from a Monday effort to challenge thousands of student ballots at Grinnell College. Spokesman Nathan Treloar told the Huffington Post on Tuesday that while he has "seen reports coming out that its Republican lawyers" objecting to student ballots, he claimed "this could be a local thing" at the county level. Asked whether the state party has encouraged or endorsed the strategy, in which students who did not register to vote by affixing a PO box to their official university mailing address are being challenged, ...

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