[Jet Jaguar]

In 2004, the Pentagon spent $576,000 developing the Interim Voting Assistance System to help overseas voters request and receive ballots. Seventeen people received ballots through it, according to a congressional report issued this summer.

In 2006, the Pentagon spent another $1.1 million to improve the system. Eight people successfully used it, the Government Accountability Office found in its June report.

WFT Mate? Govt does nothing right. Stop the wasteful spending.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

[Grizzled Bear]

She won’t say how many people have downloaded registration forms from the Web site for the upcoming presidential primary elections, only that “thousands” have participated so far.

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For some reason I don’t have a “warm-fuzzy” feeling about this.

[GATOR NAVY]

What happened to the plain old Federal Election Postcards you could use to register and/or request ballots? The states were required to accept them. I was stationed overseas from 1990-2004 and used these every federal election. Never had any problems getting an absentee ballot from my state (AK).