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VoIP Plays Big Role in Presidential Election Turnout

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VoIP Plays Big Role in Presidential Election Turnout

By PHILLIP BRITT
for VOXILLA.COM

VoIP may have played a role in choosing the next president of the
United States.

Ravi Sakaria, chief executive officer of VoicePulse, said his company
was seeing five times the normal call volume, with all of the spike
due to calls from political volunteers in the battleground states of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Many political pundits have been
saying the candidate that carries two of these states will win the
election.

Seeing the spike in traffic, Sakaria did a quick check of caller IDs
and found that most of the calls from the Democratic party, though
there were some VoIP calls from Republican volunteers as well.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have a question about the election.
On AP News Wednesday afternoon, Senator Kerry said in order to save the
country the kind of debacle which occurred in 2000 when Mr. Bush was
eventually declared the winner, he was going to concede the election
to Bush, which he did. But later in the day Wednesday officials said
they were still going to closely audit all the votes from Ohio. Now
just suppose the Ohio audit showed the Kerry *had* won that state
(although he and others said it was quite unlikely). But let's say
it turned out he did win *that state's electoral votes*. In that case
he might have won the election; but he has already conceded to Bush.
What would happen in that case? Has a 'winner' of a presidential
election ever conceded it to someone else? Just curious. PAT]

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