Absentee Voting

In a recent AP Report, young voters seemed suspicious about whether their absentee ballots would count. One young woman had her mother lie about a disability so she could hand deliver her ballot, one spent $400 on a plane ticket to fly home to vote.

All remain suspicious... one young man even went so far as to say he wished there was a recipient he could have so he would know for sure that his ballot counted.

Something must be done to overhaul our elections system to ensure that each vote is counted, and that young people don't have to go to these lengths simply to cast a ballot.

Here's a few resources that I found lately. They've been gathering dust in my browser since Denver. Best get them all out now before I forget or mistakenly close the tabs:

• 538.com has a great piece about early voting/vote by mail, including a list of when early voting begins in the battleground states.
• Go Vote Absentee will help you do just that.
• The Harvard Institute of Politics has their own absentee ballot guide, including a fancy flash-map interface.
• Travel For Change looks like it's an Obama-centric knock-off of Swing Semester/Driving Votes.