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Posted at: Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 01:03 AM
It was already highly unlikely that North Carolina’s May 4 primary would play any role in choosing the Democratic presidential nominee. But even that remote chance disappeared Monday when the state Elections Board decided to delay the election to July 20 — making it last on the list of states voting. The reason: Federal judges haven’t finished reviewing proposed new districts for legislative seats.
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Tokyo votes …
Posted at: Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 01:01 AM
They don’t count for much — a mere nine delegates as compared with the 181 at stake in today’s Tennessee and Virginia primaries — but the Democrats Abroad caucuses are packing in American expatriates this week from France to Japan. Reports were that hundreds more voters than expected showed up both in cities and locations in between as the voting began Friday.
What was driving the turnout? Brent O’Leary, a lawyer for Bloomberg’s Japanese trade book division and co-chairman of the Japanese chapter of Democrats Abroad, told The New York Times the organization has grown steadily since President Bush took office, and explosively over the last year.
An estimated 7 million Americans live overseas. Delegates chosen in the caucuses will gather for a March convention in Edinburgh, Scotland.
