Instead, we can talk about how in the face of so many commentators blaming the civil unrest around our country on absentee fathers, one father chose to spend what little time he has away from his job, with his daughter.
Mr. Miller said yesterday that the administration had agreed to help lobby state lawmakers to approve a new tax on absentee landlords of small residential buildings, defined as one-, two- and three-family homes.
No one is charging fraud in the confusion and uncertainty surrounding Florida's presidential vote, but the possibility that the final results may hinge either on absentee ballots or recounting the allegedly misleading ballots in one county raises red flags for some people here.
Kerry aides say the campaign has set up a national steering committee with task forces tackling different issues: one on ballot machines, another on voter education, and a third on absentee, early and military voting, to name a few.
On one important issue, for instance, the board's rules say that on absentee or emergency paper ballots, a vote counts only if the voter's pen or pencil mark is at least partly inside the oval and should be rejected if it completely misses the oval.
Instead workers were relying on absentee ballots.
Mr Torricelli quit just 36 days before the election; his name already appears on absentee ballots.
Vacant buildings abound, and the city is starting to crack down on absentee landlords.
And the race between Senator Slade Gorton and his challenger, Maria Cantwell, hinged on absentee ballots.
So the Council proposed a 25percentt surcharge on absentee landlords, to net the city $44 million.
Mr. Hattaway said Florida's election statute did not say whether mistakes on absentee applications could be corrected.
