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news from citizen starhawk at the FTAA protest in miami!

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/MiamiJournal05.html

Thanks to pressure from our allies in the Community Relations Board, the unions, and the NGOs, and a certain amount of pressure from the fact that thousands of protestors are due to arrive very soon, the city and county have finally opened up some housing and camping space. The county has given us a five-acre lot where a homeless shelter is due to be built, just blocks from the Convergence Center. Our permaculture group has been asked to provide a site plan. Dr. Capp from the CRB is there with Stephan from Citizen's Trade Watch and Curly, Juniper, Mike, and Gloria. We do a rough map of the field, decide where the 27,000-square-foot tent they are providing should go, where to put the porta-potties and showers and a sleeping area. We don't have time or resources to provide much infrastructure ourselves, but we could do greywater filters and Curly wants to do a garden.

While we're finishing up, we get a call. Our friends down at the fence are surrounded by police who swarmed them just as they were getting out of the bus that the North Carolina group came down in, a converted airport shuttle. We hop into Mike's van and rush down to support them. By the time we arrive, the police have backed off, but they are still present, following behind us and circling around us like a wheeling pack of wolves. They'd threatened to arrest anyone who touched the fence, telling them it was a construction zone and a felony to interfere with it.

...The spokescouncil goes well, a gathering of the affinity groups, or the small groups that take action together. We hear reports from all the working groups, the usual constellation of medics, legal, food, security, coms, etc. but also some new ones that have come directly out of discussions we had in Cancun and ongoing discussions in the movement about how to bring in new people and better handle conflict. Friedl has set up a Vibeswatch group, to help deal with conflicts that arise in the space and to hear peoples' concerns. Every day at five there will be a General Assembly, where people can express concerns about the space, the community, the workings of the infrastructure. Brush has set up a Plug-In Group, to help new people step up to tasks and take on responsibilities.

It strikes me, listening to him, that work and responsibility are the prizes in our movement--not odious tasks to be avoided, but plums to be picked. Taking on responsibilities, making contributions, are how you start to feel part of the group, to feel connected, to gain respect. So people want to work, to make their mark and give their own unique gifts to the process. And the work is so sweet--the feeling of everyone pulling together, the excitement of our co-creation--that no task is odious.

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http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/2645456/detail.html?treets=mil&tml=mil_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=mil_natlbreak_2174_09200111182003

BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that same-sex couples are legally entitled to wed under the state constitution, but stopped short of immediately [note: immediately] allowing marriage licenses to be issued to the seven couples who challenged the law. The court is giving the Legislature 180 days to "take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this decision." The ruling was 4-3... No American court had previously ordered the issuance of a marriage license to gay partners... Tuesday's decision is unlikely to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42547-2003Nov14.html

In an escalation of White House efforts to circumvent what President Bush calls the news media "filter," the Pentagon plans to launch a 24-hour satellite channel from Baghdad to make it easier for U.S. television stations to air government-authorized news about Iraq. The satellite link, dubbed "C-SPAN Baghdad"...The channel is the most aggressive yet of several administration efforts to bypass national news organizations, including a succession of interviews for local television stations with Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others.

...The officials said the channel will offer uncut coverage of government briefings and other events, and they plan to notify U.S. stations when an enlisted person, general, official or business from their area is participating. The project, they said, would have the effect of cutting the broadcast networks out of news transactions between the administration and affiliate stations.

...The project is being headed by J. Dorrance Smith, who was assistant to the president for media affairs in George H.W. Bush's administration and advised the younger Bush on his Florida recount strategy in 2000... Smith has been working in Iraq since September as an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority, headed by L. Paul Bremer. Officials said Smith's mission is to promote what the administration considers to be a more realistic picture of events.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/international/middleeast/15COMM.html?ex=1069956892&ei=1&en=a2911d35fa117d1d

Nov. 14 — The head of American forces in the Middle East [Gen. John P. Abizaid] has summoned his senior commanders to a meeting in Tampa, Fla., next week to discuss strategy for combating the guerrilla fighters in Iraq and terrorists from Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/11/15/international1737EST0617.DTL

The agreement between the U.S.-led coalition and the Iraqi Governing Council on the formation of Iraq's new government.

1. The "Fundamental Law." To be drafted by the Governing Council in close consultation with the Coalition Provisional Authority... will formally set forth the scope and structure of the sovereign Iraqi transitional administration.

Elements of the "Fundamental Law": Bill of rights, to include freedom of speech, legislature, religion; statement of equal rights of all Iraqis, regardless of gender, sect, and ethnicity; and guarantees of due process. Federal arrangement for Iraq, to include governorates and the separation and specification of powers to be exercised by central and local entities. Statement of the independence of the judiciary, and a mechanism for judicial review. Statement of civilian political control over Iraqi armed and security forces. Statement that Fundamental Law cannot be amended. An expiration date for Fundamental Law. Timetable for drafting of Iraq's permanent constitution by a body directly elected by the Iraqi people; for ratifying the permanent constitution; and for holding elections under the new constitution.

Drafting and approval of "Fundamental Law" to be complete by Feb. 28, 2004.

2. Agreements with Coalition on Security... Security agreements to cover status of Coalition forces in Iraq... complete by the end of March 2004.

3. Selection of Transitional National Assembly... The transitional assembly will not be an expansion of the GC. The GC will have no formal role in selecting members of the assembly, and will dissolve upon the establishment and recognition of the transitional administration... Election of members of the Transitional National Assembly will be conducted through a transparent, participatory, democratic process of caucuses in each of Iraq's 18 governorates... Elected no later than May 31, 2004.

4. Restoration of Iraq's Sovereignty. Following the selection of members of the transitional assembly, it will meet to elect an executive branch, and to appoint ministers. By June 30, 2004 the new transitional administration will be recognized by the Coalition, and will assume full sovereign powers for governing Iraq. The CPA will dissolve.

5. Process for Adoption of Permanent Constitution... A permanent constitution for Iraq will be prepared by a constitutional convention directly elected by the Iraqi people. Elections for the convention will be held no later than March 15, 2005. A draft of the constitution will be circulated for public comment and debate. A final draft of the constitution will be presented to the public, and a popular referendum will be held to ratify the constitution. Elections for a new Iraqi government will be held by Dec. 31, 2005, at which point the Fundamental Law will expire and a new government will take power.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,1086421,00.html

President George Bush and Tony Blair have agreed an exit strategy for pulling out of Iraq, officially ending the occupation next year while committing troops to the region until 2006.

...The moves come ahead of Bush's three-day visit to Britain, which begins on Tuesday... Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, the US National Security Adviser, and John Snow, the Treasury Secretary, will accompany the President.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/16/nbush16.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/11/16/ixnewstop.html

"Given the difficult situation surrounding this visit to Britain," said one former official with good contacts in the White House, "they decided that the President needed to project a softer, more caring image. So, for instance, he gave some journalists a full, personal guided tour of the Oval Office, in a way that humanised him for the English." British visitors were shown a painting based on the President's favourite methodist hymn, A Charge to Keep. They were pointed to the rug designed by his wife, Laura - created to inspire a "sense of optimism".

...A trip intended to celebrate the "special relationship" between Tony Blair and Mr Bush has become a frantic exercise in crisis management. One very high-placed Labour figure said last week: "We are very apprehensive about it."

...The days when Mr Bush could make a joke about the two leaders using the same toothpaste, as he did in April 2002, are long gone... In Downing Street, the talk is of defiantly "toughing out" the week... Bush aides are just as full of trepidation and foreboding. "It was a good idea at the time and now we're stuck with it," said one Bush administration official.

Black humour has already set in. "Maybe they'll just keep the lights off and pretend they're not home," joked another White House aide. And when one American official was asked where the Bush entourage would be landing, it is said he replied: "Heathrow... if it's big enough."

...The last time Mr Bush dined with the Queen - in 1992 at his father's White House, wearing cowboy boots emblazoned with God Save the Queen - he asked if she had any black sheep in her family. "Don't answer that!" his mother, Barbara, interjected, trying to avoid embarrassment. This time he's the President, the man in charge.

...As the anti-war protesters prepare to fill Trafalgar Square with unflattering images of the "cowboy" President and the Downing Street "poodle", mild panic has set in behind the scenes. At Buckingham Palace there is bewilderment and some resentment at the sheer scale of American security requests for the duration of Mr Bush's stay... "They wanted blast- and bullet-proofed windows," one senior courtier told the Telegraph. "They wanted strengthened curtains and strengthening to the walls of the President's suite and the other rooms that he would be spending time in."

...Buckingham Palace security pass-holders are being ordered to go through bomb checks for the first time. Some Palace staff who have had security clearance for 30 years are undergoing positive vetting again. "The Queen will not have to wear a security badge. I think we know what she looks like," said one Palace official. "But it is getting to that level."

...One minister had a surprise visit last week from a tense group of men in suits at his Whitehall office. They announced they were from the American Embassy and wanting to "check out the joint". The visitors' mission was to inspect Durbar Court, a magnificent hall in the 115-year-old Foreign Office building, where the Prime Minister and the President will hold their joint press conference... As the security men swept through Whitehall, rumours emerged that the White House also desired a Black Hawk helicopter, capable of ferocious firepower, to hover continuously over the Palace. According to the security men, a Black Hawk would be invaluable in the event of a rocket-propelled grenade attack.

...According to a Republican Party official who will not be on the trip... "They know that for every great image of the President at the Palace, or Laura with the Queen, there will be another terrible image of tens of thousands of Brits telling him to go away."

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1086397,00.html

November 16 - Home Secretary David Blunkett has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers travelling to Britain as part of President Bush's entourage this week. In the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, the Americans in Bush's protection squad will face justice in a British court as would any other visitor, the Home Office has confirmed.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=464815

18 November 2003 - One in nine police officers in England and Wales will be protecting George Bush on his state visit to Britain, which begins today. Ten thousand more police officers have been drafted in... The bill will run to at least £7,000,000, and the British taxpayer will pay for it. [that's $11,823,866.34, folks! --mrs.h]

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/994998.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1

Nov. 18 — The U.N. refugee agency began pulling foreign staff out of large swaths of southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday in the wake of the killing of a French worker, a decision that could affect tens of thousands of Afghan returnees.

...Several international aid organizations operating in the south also held an emergency meeting to discuss “options which may include the withdrawal from the southern region of Afghanistan,” according to ACBAR, an umbrella group of 86 aid agencies working in Afghanistan.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=464142

16 November 2003 - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ending its emergency food programme in the West Bank, saying the economic collapse there is the direct result of Israeli military closures and that Israel must live up to its responsibility as the occupying power for the economic needs of the Palestinians.

...Israel is concerned that other international organisations may follow the Red Cross.

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http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/L12478833.htm

JERUSALEM, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A secret Israeli memorandum says the country has failed to honour commitments under a U.S. peace plan to evacuate illegal settler outposts and has sought "in every way to whitewash their existence and build more". Government sources on Wednesday quoted the memorandum as saying: "We promised the United States that we would dismantle the outposts and have not done so. That is our Achilles' heel."

"International criticism is growing because of our lack of creative ideas for getting out of the conflict," it said.

Israel lacked credibility when it claimed to be fulfilling its obligations under a U.S.-backed plan for ending three years of fighting with the Palestinians, the memorandum said. "Our claim that Israel has fulfilled its side of the (peace) road map is seen as lacking credibility because not only have we not evacuated the illegal outposts, we are working in every way to whitewash their existence and build more," it said.

The sources said the memorandum was prepared at Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's behest... A senior government source acknowledged the memorandum but denied Israel had acted in bad faith.

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http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El2981&enZone=Diplomacy&enVersion=0

Senior U.S. officials said that relations between the U.S. and Israel were "approaching a crisis" due to the policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government, Army Radio reported today... The prime minister "isn't acting as a friend, isn't keeping promises and is ignoring the Bush administration's difficult situation in Iraq and the criticism of the president," the officials said, quoted by the radio.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-11-16-fbi-juvenile-dna_x.htm

WASHINGTON — DNA profiles from hundreds of thousands of juvenile offenders and adults arrested but not convicted of crimes could be added to the FBI's national DNA crime-fighting program under a proposed law moving through Congress.

...The changes, in a little-noticed section of a bill that would authorize $755 million for DNA testing, were approved by the House of Representatives on Nov. 5. Backers say the Senate is likely to approve a similar version by early next year... The American Civil Liberties Union counters that... taking a person's DNA before he is even convicted, said ACLU Washington lobbyist Jesselyn McCurdy, "removes the presumption of innocence." Advocates for juveniles say that giving teenagers what amounts to a "permanent criminal genetic record" defeats the purpose of the juvenile justice system by treating the youths as adults... Thirty states already collect DNA from juvenile offenders, typically ages 13-17, for their own use.

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http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11152003/commenta/commenta.asp

11/15 - In our latest episode of continuing adventures with the USA Patriot Act, FBI agents say they have used the new anti-terrorism law to prosecute a political bribery case centered on the owner of some Las Vegas strip clubs.

What do topless dancers in Vegas have to do with terrorism, you may ask? Nothing... Nevertheless, the FBI now confirms local Las Vegas newspaper reports that the agency used the Patriot Act's provisions to subpoena financial information about four local politicians and one local businessman... It turns out that Section 314 of the Patriot Act allows federal investigators wider leeway in obtaining financial information from stockbrokers, banks and other financial institutions on people "suspected, based on credible evidence, of engaging in terrorist acts or money laundering."

"The Patriot Act was not meant to be just for terrorism," Department of Justice spokesman Mark Corallo told a reporter... The Justice Department spokesman said the American people expect law enforcement officers to use any and all constitutional and legal tools to fight all crime, whether it is terror-related or not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13285726.htm

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Republicans were gearing up Thursday to begin selling a complex Medicare plan ... Democrats say the proposal is tantamount to privatizing Medicare while Republicans say it will make it more cost effective... That compromise includes a geographically limited three-year pilot project to introduce "premium support," a controversial Republican plan to have traditional Medicare compete against private health plans. House Republicans originally wanted premium support to go into effect nationwide in 2010.

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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/7270780.htm

The civil-service system is breaking up. The defense spending bill just passed by Congress permits the Pentagon to overhaul the pay and personnel rules for 746,000 civil-service employees of the Defense Department... [which] means that more than half the federal workforce will no longer be anchored by civil-service law.

...Bush administration officials, including Defense appointees, appear eager to move employees into systems that more closely link pay raises - both the timing and the amount - to individual job performance.

..."This now becomes an issue of 'No Agency Left Behind,' " said John Palguta, a vice president at the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. "What do we do for the Department of Justice? The Centers for Disease Control?"

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/2221135

By Enron's own reckoning, the legal and accounting costs of its bankruptcy will exceed $1,000,000,000.00 in 2006 [yes, that's "exceed more than one billion dollars -mrs.h].

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http://www.unknownnews.net/031117a-be.html

Nov. 17, 2003 - Having witnessed the executive decisions of George W. Bush for three years, I began to ask where these decisions were coming from. Then I remembered that George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, and Karl Rove all have something in common other than being confusing: they are all from the Texas Republican Party. So I took a long look at the Texas GOP Platform. George W. Bush says he bases the federal model on his home state of Texas, and so do DeLay and Rove.

...If you’re curious, you can read the entire platform here: http://www.calpundit.com/archives/002380.html

There are several points about the Texas GOP platform which ought to bother you, but one in particular stands out: the preemption of the Supreme Court. The Texas GOP platform states the following: “Congress should be urged to exercise its authority under Article III, Sections 1 and 2 of the United States Constitution, and should withhold appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in such cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and all rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.”

...Let me put it to you this way: if these men get their way, there would be no Supreme Court to go to if your case involved abortion, religion, or anything else related to the Bill of Rights... That leaves your case attended to solely according to the will of Congress. If you dissent from the will of Congress, you have no forum for your disagreement. There would be no case because your case would have been preempted from having an appeal because the Texas GOP preempted the Supreme Court from ruling on your behalf.

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from greg palast:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/27government/palast.htm

MAY 4. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. At the dais, Martin Luther King spoke with the marchers who had crossed the bridge into Birmingham, the women and men who had faced down Bull Connor’s police dogs and fire hoses:“We ask a simple question. Do African Americans have the right to vote in the United States of America?”I had to blink. Speaking was Martin Luther King the Third, son of the late Nobel Laureate—and the year was 2003. The elderly foot soldiers of the legendary civil rights march of 1963 had gathered to commemorate their peaceful invasion of the city 40 years earlier.

...The civil rights activists knew in detail what most Americans today have yet to learn: In the five months leading to the 2000 presidential election, political appointees working for Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered the removal of 57,700 voters from Florida’s vote registries. The official reason? Those they targeted were felons, ex-cons, who had illegally registered to vote. The truth? Virtually every voter they “scrubbed” from the voter rolls is innocent of any crime—except that many are guilty of the crime of Voting While Black. There’s no guessing about this—Florida voter registrations include each citizen’s race.

...I’m an investigative reporter for BBC Television and the Guardian papers of Britain. It didn’t take much investigating, however, to note something funny about the voter purge once I got my hands on Katherine Harris’ computer files. One criminal, Thomas Cooper, was listed as convicted of a felony on “January 30, 2007.” The whole list was rotten with these whacky faux felony convictions—and loaded with the tag line “BLA”—black voter.

...In 2002, with little public notice, Congress passed and the president signed the “Help America Vote Act.” Hidden behind the apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time-bomb. Every state must, by the 2004 election, imitate Florida’s system of computerizing voter files; the law empowers 50 secretaries of state to purge these lists of suspect voters.

...Until now, with the notable exception of Florida, voter rolls throughout America have been maintained by county officials watched over by bi-partisan committees. Now the job of deciding who can and who can’t vote will fall to a single official —the ‘Katherine Harris’ of each state.

...Most states are holding public hearings on computerization right now. Tell your officials that those voting computers must provide paper trails. And we can begin to clean up those nasty purge lists by ending the disenfranchisement of ex-felons. Anyone who has paid his debt to society should have his rights fully restored. And purge lists must have strict procedures to protect voters from being wrongly cut. Get in and raise the facts, then raise hell.

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one novel approach

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_xymphora_archive.html#106887882654212745

...Despite the massive problems with Diebold machines - it seems a new startling revelation of some fundamental snafu every week - and its attempts to stifle debate on the basis of democracy through a bogus use of the DMCA, corrupt politicians and clueless election bureaucrats continue to buy Diebold machines. No one seems able to stop them. Americans can't talk about the problem, and democracy is being lost touchscreen voting machine by touchscreen voting machine, day by day. It seems to me that progressive Americans are losing heart at what seems to be insurmountable obstacles put up by the fascists. What can be done?

Diebold's main business isn't voting machines. It's automated teller machines. Banks are extremely sensitive about losing customers, and love ATM's, where they can charge huge fees without having to pay salaries to human beings. Diebold's share price would be very sensitive to any hint that banks might have to change major purchasing decisions based on the fact that they might be facing a boycott of their ATM's.

If Americans are concerned about the effective loss of their right to vote, they should vote with their feet. Stop using Diebold ATM's. If a bank has nothing but Diebold ATM's, change banks. Let the banks know why they are losing customers. Forcing Diebold out of the election business would be an excellent first step in regaining democracy, and getting some fight back into the hearts of American progressives.

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and another.

http://www.holesinthesky.com/absentee.html

In light of the controversy surrounding the Electronic Voting Machines (http://www.blackboxvoting.com/) I am proposing that everyone submit their vote in the form of an absentee ballot.

One of the problems with the electronic voting machines is that many of them (if any? and who knows which ones do or don't) do not create a physical log of the voting records. Also there have been reports of abnormalities in vote tallying. Without this physical log it makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible to verify the voting records. If they are not going to allow a trail to be created, I suggest that we create on for them.

I have created a list, by state, of web links of how to vote with an absentee ballot. Don't be fooled, you don't actually have to be absent to vote with an absentee ballot.

Alabama http://www.sos.state.al.us/election/vr/vr-b.htm

Alaska http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ltgov/elections/abinfo.htm

Arizona (I was unable to find a link)

Arkansas http://www.sosweb.state.ar.us/elections_voter_arkansas_absentee.html

California http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_m.htm

Colorado http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/main.htm

Connecticut (it's not online, but it tells you where to go to register) http://www.sots.state.ct.us/ElectionsDivision/Elecform.html

Delaware http://www.state.de.us/election/absentee.html

Florida(contact your local supervisor of elections) http://election.dos.state.fl.us/county/index.shtml

Georgia http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/info/voter_info_2003.htm#Absentee%20Voting

Hawaii http://www.state.hi.us/elections/voteab.html

Idaho http://www.idsos.state.id.us/elect/voterreg/absentee.htm

Illinois (this is all I could find) http://www.elections.state.il.us/elecinfo/pages/downloads/pdf/absevote.pdf

Indianahttp://www.in.gov/sos/elections/forms/index.html

Iowa http://www.sos.state.ia.us/elections/voterreg/voterguidefiles/absentee.html

Kansas http://www.kssos.org/elections/elections_registration_voting.html

Kentucky (best I could find) http://www.sos.state.ky.us/Elecfil/Genelectionfiles/voterguide.asp#Absentee

Louisiana http://204.196.221.226/elect_absentee.html

Maine http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/absent.htm

Maryland http://www.elections.state.md.us/voters/absentee_ballot.html

Massachusetts http://www.state.ma.us/sec/ele/eleifv/howabs.htm

Michigan http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,1607,7-127-1633_11976_11987-28039--,00.html

Minnesota http://www.sos.state.mn.us/election/forms.html

Mississippi (contact your local voting registrar) http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/VoterRegistrars.asp

Missouri http://www.sos.mo.gov/section4.asp

Montanahttp://sos.state.mt.us/css/ELB/Absentee_Ballot.asp

Nebraska http://www.sos.state.ne.us/Elections/Absenteepage.htm

Nevada (contact you local county clerk) http://sos.state.nv.us/nvelection/county/co_clerks.htm

New Hampshire http://www.state.nh.us/sos/vote.htm#Absentee

New Jersey http://www.state.nj.us/lps/elections/absentee_doe.html

New Mexico http://web.state.nm.us/Election/03Special/ABinfo.htm

New York http://www.elections.state.ny.us/voting/absentee.htm

North Carolina http://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/

North Dakota http://www.state.nd.us/sec/votingabsentee.htm

Ohio (click on "voter services") http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/elections/index.html

Oklahoma http://www.oklaosf.state.ok.us/~elections/absentee.html

Oregon http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/other.info/vr.htm

Pennsylvania (contact your county board of elections) http://www.dos.state.pa.us/bcel/cwp/view.asp?a=1099&q=431721

Rhode Island http://www.elections.state.ri.us/mailvote.htm

South Carolina http://www.state.sc.us/scsec/absent.htm

South Dakota http://www.sdsos.gov/absentee.htm

Tennessee (contact you local county administrator) http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/county.htm

Texas http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml

Utah http://elections.utah.gov/absenteevoting.html

Vermont http://vermont-elections.org/elections1/absenteevotinginfo.html

Virginia http://www.sbe.state.va.us/election/absente1.htm

Washington http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/register_absentee.aspx

West Virginia http://www.wvsos.com/elections/voters/absentee.htm

Wisconsin http://elections.state.wi.us/sebpage33.html