Kerry Picks Up 2 Votes in Iowa Balloting

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Kerry Picks Up 2 Votes in Iowa Balloting

By MIKE GLOVER
Associated Press Writer



DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Presidential candidate John Kerry was a double winner Thursday when two Iowans - both young Democratic Party activists - cast the state's first votes of the 2004 election.

Andy and Jana Heiting-Doane, both 22, were at the doors of the Polk County election office when it opened at 8 a.m. They filled out two absentee ballots, later telling reporters they had voted for Kerry, as part of an event carefully choreographed by the Iowa Democratic Party.

Under Iowa law, the state's 99 county auditors were required to make absentee ballots available Thursday. Requests for absentee ballots have been flowing in all summer. By Monday, Polk County election officials had received 32,600 requests for absentee ballots, most coming from Democrats. In Linn County - the second largest - there were 17,000 absentee requests. Those totals are near the absentee vote in the 2000 election, with more than a month left before the election...

In Iowa in 2000, early voting paid off for Democratic candidate Al Gore. While Republican candidate George W. Bush received more votes on the day of the election, Gore earned more in early voting and won Iowa by just over 4,000 votes.

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1. But.. but... in the morning news Iowa was reported as moving to Bush

at least by USA/??? poll which is not considered the most reliable. I could not believe my ears. Iowa? for Bush? Why?