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We've all heard that turnout is expected to be high this year, but apparently some people are so excited about voting they want to do it more than just once.

A recent Pima County review found roughly 400 people tried to vote twice during the Sept. 2 primary election.

While the county referred all the cases to the County Attorney's Office for investigation, County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said he believes almost all the incidents were accidental.

Of those who tried to vote twice, almost all of them were on the older side and many of them cast their first vote early.

Between the time of their first vote and Election Day, they either forgot they voted early or just headed to the polls out of lifelong habit, Huckelberry speculated.

Perhaps it's a snowbird's take on the old Chicago adage, "vote early, vote often."

Phoenix-area Congressman Jeff Flake faces a rather easy reelection this year.

In the past two election cycles, Democrats didn't even put up a competitor to go against the popular incumbent. This time, Rebecca Schneider is making a long-shot bid.

So maybe that's part of the reason Flake is doing some campaigning outside the boundaries of District 6, a 724-square-mile district that takes in Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and a sliver of northern Pinal County.

Even though the Arizona Daily Star doesn't cover any of those areas and is probably unknown to most readers there, Flake is advertising on the Star's Web site, Azstarnet.com.

Campaign manager Mike Haller said Flake has supporters all over the state and he just wants them to see his advertising, too.

Or maybe, Notebook thought, Flake wants folks south of the Gila River to get to known him. You know, in case he launches that statewide campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2010.

On that point, Haller responded: "No comment."

For the past year, Republicans have talked up their chances of winning back seats in Congress. The conventional wisdom was that with John McCain at the top of the ticket and 2006 — an overall bad year for the GOP — fading into the distance, the party might pick up seats. But now analysts and even many Republicans are doubting those chances.

Rather than winning back seats, Republicans are just trying to keep what they have — without much money or resources to do so.

In a story headlined, "GOP ditches recruits to save incumbents," Politico reports that "if 2008 looks like 2006, a new wave of veteran Republicans will be out on the streets, and the colleagues they leave behind could find themselves with the smallest minority since the post-Watergate era."

The publication lists Phoenix's John Shadegg as one GOP incumbent fighting for his political life — "a reversal of fortunes that has caught even the most astute campaign observers by surprise," the Web site writes.

That, as Democrats released a poll saying Shadegg lags behind his Democratic opponent, Bob Lord, by one point.

Congressional opponents Tim Bee and Gabrielle Giffords, dueling for the seat in District 8, will participate in their final debate tonight. It's at 7:30 p.m. at Flowing Wells High School, 3725 N. Flowing Wells Road.

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