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Getting Out the Vote Save Email Print
Posted: 1:53 PM Oct 8, 2008
Last Updated: 1:53 PM Oct 8, 2008
Reporter: Jamie Edmonds
Email Address: jamie.edmonds@wilx.com

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The fight for registration may be over, but the battle for participation is just beginning. The weapon of choice for both parties? The phone.

"We just have a few short days until November 4th," Obama volunteer James Marshall Jr. said.

Volunteers at the Obama Campaign office in Lansing are combing through their phone lists and making sure everyone heads to the polls on election day.

"My focus is the phone banking and talking to people who haven't made up their minds yet," Marshall said.

And even though the McCain campaign announced it wouldn't target Michigan anymore, volunteers at the Ingham County Republican Party headquarters are still dialing digits.

"Even since the announcement, we've closed the gap," Chair of the Ingham County Republican Party Norm Shinkle said.

And they're focusing on absentee voters.

"We're making sure everyone who can't be in town and needs an absentee ballot, gets one," Shinkle said.

Just days after Obama rallied at MSU's campus, volunteers are making sure the thousands of college students who registered, actually vote too.

"I think the registration forms and ballots can be confusing and intimidating for new voters, but we want to make it as easy as possible for them," Obama Volunteer Jeffrey Omura said.

Voting is a right both campaigns want you to exercise November fourth.

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Posted by: Populista on Oct 14, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Jack must be related to Sara & Sally (it's OBAMA, not ABAMA). Must be some cute right wing wordplay. Jack, please provide a link to show where you read about dead people voting for Obama, and a link that talks about one person voting 70 times for him. Otherwise, stop lying. You all are really grasping at straws now.

Posted by: Jack Location: mo on Oct 13, 2008 at 08:28 PM
Obama gave 800,000 to acrorn and they are stealing votes for him, people that are even dead voted and they had one person vote over 70 times for abama. He is not presidential material

Posted by: Populista on Oct 10, 2008 at 02:11 PM
What is scary is that people who can't even spell get to vote. I guess that's what we get for letting the Republicans slash funding for education. It was all part of their plan: Keep the people uneducated so they will fall for the flag-waving, Bible-thumping rhetoric without critically analyzing information for themselves, because they don't have the capacity for critical analysis.

Posted by: sally Location: lansing on Oct 9, 2008 at 04:44 PM
abama is scary

Posted by: barb Location: okemos on Oct 9, 2008 at 04:40 PM
when i look to the news to learn more about the canidates i come away thinking how unfair, what could be a clean-clear way to help us understand their policies, we get the opion of who ever the news castor's are. how sick is that?

Posted by: amy Location: mi on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:41 PM
there are still a bunch of us out here who like McCain

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