Page 7A October 18,2000
Election guide
The University Daily Kansan
District 45
Precinct Location Address
4-1 USD 497 Admin. Center 110 McDonald Drive
4A USD 497 Admin. Center 110 McDonald Drive
1-1 Pickney Elementary 810 W. Sixth St.
2-1 City Library 707 Vermont St.
1-6 Woodlawn Elementary 508 Elm St.
N. Wak. A Riverside Elementary 601 N. Iowa St.
1-7 Free State High School 4700 Overland Drive
2-7 Vote by mail Vote by mail
2-7 Prarie Commons 5121 Congressional Circle
3-8 Vote by mail Vote by mail
4-7 Southwest Jr. High School 2511 Iverness Drive
5-7 Vote by mail Vote by mail
8-2 First Presbyterian Church 2415 Clinton Parkway
8-3 United Way building 2518 Ridge Court
8-3 Cheokers Foods 2300 Louisiana St.
7-3 Southside Church of Christ 1105 W. 25th St.
2-7 Vote by mail Vote by mail
District 44
Precinct Location Address
6-1 Sterling House 3220 Princeton Boulevard
7-2 American Legion 3408 W. Sixth St.
5-1 Deerfield Elementary 101 Lawrence Ave.
14-2 First Southern Baptist Church 4300 W. Sixth
6-2 First Baptist Church 1330 Kasold Drive
5-2 West Jr. High School 2706 Yale Road
17-2 Presbyterian Manor 1429 Kasold Drive
12-2 Mustard Seed Church 700 Wakarua Drive
3-1 Lawrence Arts Center 200 W. Ninth St.
3-2 Hillcrest Elementary 1045 Hilltop St.
15-2 St. Lawrence Catholic Center 1631 Cresent Road
9-2 Immanuel Lutheran Church 2104 W. 15th St.
10-2 Clinton Pkwy Assembly of God 3200 Clinton Parkway
18-2 Drury Place 1510 St. Andrews Drive
18-2 Brandon Woods 1501 Iverness Drive
18-2 Free Methodist Church 3001 Lawrence Ave.
11-2 Holcom Recreation Center 2700 W. 27th St.
| Precinct | Location | Address |
| :--- | :--- | ---: |
| 1-5 | New York Elementary | 939 New Yorik St. |
| 1-2 | Pymouth Congregational Church | 925 Vermont St. |
| 2-5 | Judicial and Law Enforcement Building | 111 E. 11th St. |
| 2-2 | South Park Rec. Center | 1141 Massachusetts St. |
| 1-3 | Central United Methodist Church | 1501 Massachusetts St. |
| 4-2 | Allen Fieldhouse | KU Campus |
| 2-3 | Cordley Elementary | 1837 Vermont St. |
| 1-4 | Central Jr. High School | 1400 Massachusetts St. |
| 3-4 | East Lawrence Center | 1245 E. 15th St. |
| 4-2 | Kennedy Elementary | 1605 Davis Road |
| 5-4 | Haskell Coffin Sports Complex | Haskell Campus |
| 3-3 | Lawrence High School | 2017 Louisiana St. |
| 3-4 | Centennial Elementary | 2145 Louisiana St. |
| 6-3 | Schwegler Elementary | 2201 Ousdahl Road |
| 2-4 | Babcock Place | 1700 Massachusetts St. |
District 47
Precinct Location Address
**6-4** Prarie Park Elementary 2711 Kensington Road
**2-6** Vote by mail Vote by mail
Record number of early votes may sway close races
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A record number of Americans will vote before Election Day this year, a phenomenon that's transforming the parties' get-out-and-vote drives and could affect tight races for president and Congress.
Oregon is holding the nation's first all-mail balloting, and millions more will vote absentee in states such as California, Washington, Nevada and Arizona, where control of the House and Senate could be settled.
The numbers keep rising as states make it easier to vote ahead
of time.
Washington, where the absentee vote is expected to top 50 percent, has three competitive House races, a key Senate contest and a tight presidential battle. The state counts all absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day, so votes will still be coming in after Nov. 7.
"If it's a close election this time, it's possible we could have to wait a week to find out the winner," said Bryan Jones, a political scientist at the University of Washington.
spen the difference in control of Congress. Nevada, where absentee and early voting accounted for more than 40 percent of the 1998 vote, has competitive Senate and House races.
California, where more than 1 million absentee ballots won't be counted until after Election Day, has five House races that could
Both parties are maneuvering to turn the early voting into a political advantage.
"We're doing mail, phones, door-to-door canvassing, and we've got our precinct organizations in place and our grass-roots organizations in place," said Ryan Erwin, executive director of the Republican Party in Nevada, where early voting begins Saturday.
"My pledge to voters is we'll quit
bugging you when you vote," he said.
In Oregon, Vice President Al Gore's campaign also is kicking off its get-out-the-vote effort this week, when voters start receiving ballots in the mail.
"We're going to focus on making sure our voters turn in their ballots in time for them to count," campaign spokesman David Chai said. "We're going to make sure we go to every single household in our base and to independents and some Republicans as well."
Republicans historically have benefited more from absentee votes because "it's the upscale people and
the people who are more regular voters who avail themselves of these things," said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate.
"More than likely now, it's going to fairly accurately reflect the public at large in those states because the process has been so simplified and made as convenient as possible," he said.
But Doug Lewis, who heads a Houston-based association of election and voter registration officials, said the liberalization of absentee and early voting rules during the past decade may have eroded that GOP edge.
That's what happened in Washington, one of the few states that record the differences between absentee and election day voting.
In 1992, when 18 percent of the vote was absentee, President Clinton defeated former President Bush 44 percent to 31 percent among Election Day voters, but just 41 percent to 36 percent among absentees.
Six years later, when almost half the votes cast in the Washington Senate race were absentee, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray defeated Republican Linda Smith, winning 58 percent on Election Day and 59 percent of the absentees.