Americans overseas head to polls (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Tue, 02/05/2008 - 2:36am

Jennifer Rosenzwig of New York, center, and Jessica Buck, hometown unknown, left, the first voters in 2008 U.S. presidential primary, cast their ballot in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008.<br /><br />Hundreds of thousands of Democrats living overseas started voting Tuesday with the first ballots cast at the stroke of midnight in Indonesia, where contender Barack Obama lived as a child.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)AP - Americans living overseas started lining up in hotels and coffee shops Tuesday to vote for Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, while others — for the first time ever — cast ballots online.




 

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