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• 5:00 p.m., TOPS Meeting, Fire Hall.
• 7:00 p.m., AA & AL-ANON Meetings, (Separate), Courthouse.
• 7:00 p.m., Panhandle Water Planning Group public meeting, Pam pa City
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• 12 noon, Uons Club Meeting, Fire Hall.
• I 00 p.m., AA Meeting, Courthouse.
• Fritch Track Meet, High School and Middle School.
• Dumas Tennis Tournament.
• Fritch Track Meet, High School and Middle School.
• Dumas Tennis Tournament.
• Boys and Girls Golf, Periyton.
• 8:30 a.m„ First United Methodist Church Early Worship Service, Sunday
School 9:30 a m.. MorningWorship 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.
• 10 a.m„ Sunday Mass, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 10 a.m., CCD
Classes.
• 9:30 a.m„ First Christian Church Sunday School, 10:30 a.m„ Morning
Worship. 6 p.m., Evening Worship
• 9:30a.m., Church ofChrist Sunday Bible Class, I0:30a.m, MomingWor-
ship, 6 p.m.. Evening Worship, 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Class.
• 9:45 a.m., First Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Worship Service 11
a.m.
• 9:30 a.m., First Baptist Church Sunday School, 10:45 a.m„ Morning Wor-
ship, 6 p.m,, Training Union, 7 p.m., Evening Worship.
• 10 a.m., Assembly of God Christian Education, 6:30 p.m., Evening
Worship.
• 10 a.m., Pentecostal Church Sunday School, 11 a.m., Morning Worship, 7
p.m., Evening Worship.
• 10 a.m., Central Baptist Church Sunday School, 11 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship, 6 p.m., Evening Worship.
• 10:30 a.m., Believer's Covenant Sunday Worship.
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• 12:00 noon, AL-ANON meeting, Hood Abstract Building.
• 12 noon, Rotary Club Meeting, WCTU.
• One-Act Play District, WTA&MU, Canyon.
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• I0i.m.-2p.m., Sagebrush Painters, Fire HaH.
• District Golf. Dumas.
• Sharing is Caring food pantry and clothes closet. Saturday 9 am.-noon,
First A Elsie Donations through local churches or directly.
• Canadian Boy Scouts. Call Gary Bilbrey, 323-8883.
• American Cancer Society services, Wayne Baker, 323-6519 or Agnes Ad-
ams. 323-6258.
• Canadian Girl Scouts. Local service unit. Call Karri Snyder. 323-8920.
• AL-ANON, Mondays, 12:00 noon. Hood Abstract. AA/AL-ANON,
Thursdays. 7:00 p.m., Courthouse. AA, Fridays, 1:00 p.m.. Courthouse. Call
323-8481 or 323-5137.
• Panhandle Transit, rural transportation service runs Monday, Wednesday.
Friday to Amarillo. Contact Lipscomb County Judge at 806-862-4131.
• National phone line to report child abuse: I -800-4-A-CHILD
(1-800-422-4453)
• Tralee Crisis Center for Women, call toll-free I -800-658-2796.
• Legal Hotline for Older Texans: I -800-622-2520 for free legal advice on
matters such as public benefit, health, consumer and elder law.
• Nursing Home Advocacy Project hotline: 1-888-343-4414 for free legal
advice to nursing home residents and their families in cases where abuse is
suspected.
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Online balloting boosts turnout
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|HE NATION’S FIRST binding election partly
I conducted online was not a total success. But Ari-
zona Democrats nonetheless are pleased with the re-
sults of their history-making “Internet primary”
last week. And well they should be.
Other states can learn from the primary’s results
— both its numerous glitches and, more important,
its turnout. Only 12,800 Arizona Democrats voted in
their state’s last presidential primary. Th^ lack of a
contested race in 1996 was largely responsible for
keeping the turnout low. But it might not have been
much higher had President Clinton been seriously
opposed for renomination. Far fewer people vote
even in competitive primaries than in November.
This year, with a contested race that had all but
ended by the time Arizona Democrats began pointr
ing and clicking to vote, almost three times as
many—35,765—cast their ballots online during the
four days the cyberpolls were open. With traditional
polling places open for a day after e-voting ended
and with mail-in ballots, more than 78,000 Arizona
Democrats voted in this year’s presidential primary.
This doubled the highest turnout the party had
drawn since it switched from a nominating conven-
tion to a primary in 1984.
More of Arizona’s 800,000-plus registered Demo-
crats would have voted online had they not encoun-
tered so many frustrating glitches. The software
Arizona Democrats used, provided by New
York-based Election.com, refused Macintosh com-
puter users access to the party’s voting Web sites.
Thousands of registered Democrats did not receive
personal identification numbers required to cast on-
line ballots. The heavy volume of online balloting
overwhelmed the system. It was processing three
votes per second at one point during the day the
cyberpolls opened.
Many voters experienced problems or delays log-
ging onto the party’s Web sites and then casting
their ballots once they finally gained access. The
party did not initially have enough phone lines set up
to handle the volume of e-voting or calls for assis-
tance. Some would-be voters received erroneous
messages telling them they’d already voted and
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LOW: 40
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FRIDAY
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LOW: 46
Partly cloudy.
SATURDAY
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LOW: 44
Mostly clear.
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HIGH: 68
LOW: 44
Mostly cloudy with a
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 2000, newspaper, March 23, 2000; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth735861/m1/3/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.