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Claims of american bias ahead of nobel announcement
The Washington Post, August 26, 2007
On Monday, an estimated 1.2 million people in the United States are expected to cast ballots, and thousands of voters in states and other territories will be asked to pay the cost of absentee ballots, which usually cost 10 to 20 cents more than mail ballots.
An estimated 0.9 million people will be allowed to participate in early-voting, where people who cast their ballots before the end of the month may wait longer to cast a ballot.
The vast majority of Americans, according to the most recent census data, are registered to vote and not to vote. But the numbers show that since 1990, when they began reporting them, about 8 in 10 are registered to vote.
But the vast majority of these people vote in the same state as they have voted for decades: Some 62 percent of those who voted in 1992 and 2008 did so in the same state. And more than a third of those who voted in 2008 had never previously voted at all, according to exit polls conducted last month in eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
This year's participation rate is the lowest since the election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980, when only 41 percent of people in the U.S. said they had voted in a Presidential election. In 1980, 52 percent of all registered voters in the U.S. cast a ballot in the presidential election; since 1980, it has dropped only slightly to 47 percent.
How many people actually show up to vote is a different question. A new Center for the Study of Elections report, which is based on the data from last year's election and some surveys over the past four years, shows how likely a large number of people were to vote in 2008. The total turnout rate in 2008 was 60.5 percent, which is down from 63 percent in 1984 and 73 percent in 1980. But the total turnout rate that year was nearly twice that of the 2008 election, at 73 percent.
Those in the U.S. who do vote at higher rates than in past elections are disproportionately black, Hispanic and poor, the report's author, Steven M. Greenberg, an economics professor at Penn State, said in an interview with The Washington Post.
The rate of registered voters who were young or poor in 1980 was 43 percent. In 2008, 43.1 percent of registered voters were 18 to 29 years old, while 46.2 percent were 30 to 44.4.
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National rural news media outlet, The Daily Telegraph in Australia, is reporting that the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Robert Wright, has died, aged 79.
He had been in residence at his home on Prince Rupert, west of Melbourne.
Wright was one of the most influential figures in both the Bush and Obama administrations, with key roles as the first US envoy to Afghanistan and the United Nations and as deputy assistant secretary of state for Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009 to 2013. He was also the ambassador to Kuwait in the 1990s and to Saudi Arabia in 1992.
It is believed to be the first US casualty in Afghanistan since the end of the US and UK's military operations there in 2001.
In a 2014 report, Washington Post journalists Greg Miller and Ellen Nakashima reported that there are no clear US or Afghan troop numbers for this year.
US military figures released during President Barack Obama's first term for Afghanistan suggest that more than 9,300 are fighting with the Taliban and Taliban-linked groups.
The number does not include about 400 civilians.
At one point last year, US military figures revealed a civilian casualty rate of 18 per 100,000.
The Pentagon has yet to report civilian deaths in Afghanistan in a year.
