Ohio Homeless Driven to Polls to Vote Obama
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:29 pm
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Ohio Homeless Driven to Polls to Vote Obama
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
CLEVELAND — Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.
The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.
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