[ConservativeMajority]

Votes were disqualified because they arrived late from the war zone. The absentee ballots were mailed out late and arrived in Iraq one or two days before Election Day.

[logic]

I think the simple solution would be to allow a two month leave for all washington state millitary personel to go home and have a face to face discussion with the election board (in uniform and armed of course) I think the election board would get the problem worked out in about two minutes!!!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Votes were disqualified because they arrived late from the war zone. The absentee ballots were mailed out late and arrived in Iraq one or two days before Election Day.

And many arrived AFTER election day.