Louis Keller, the Orleans Parish registrar of voters, takes an absentee ballot from a fax machine in New Orleans, Tuesday, April 18, 2006. The fax machines in his office are busy 24 hours a day, and every morning, he says, 'we generally have a stack of these waiting for us.' On Saturday, New Orleans will hold its first municipal election since Hurricane Katrina, using fax machines and other stopgap measures to pull off one of the trickiest exercises in democracy in modern times. (AP)
Elections in New Orleans Story aired: Friday, April 21, 2006
New Orleans goes to the polls tomorrow for its first municipal elections since Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and forced about 250,000 people out of their homes.
The mayor's race has garnered nationwide attention. Twenty-three candidates are running for the position, and incumbent Ray Nagin is fighting for his political life in a city that has changed in landscape and in racial composition.
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