bump for your soldier husband and many others who serve
Bump for my heroes, and their votes.
One thing I’d like to know...it’s been reported that the wives want their men home so badly that they will vote for Obama.
Is that true?
Marie, bless you for your sacrifice. I know a bit of what you are speaking. My husband was a career soldier in another war.
It is a national travesty that our military folks have to worry one second about whether their vote is going to be counted. Lord knows, they have enough to worry about!
Marie, thank you to your husband and yourself for your collective Service (for they also Serve who stand and wait)...
Here’s a Dumb Kiwi Question: precisely how the Devil do Military votes get “thrown out”? Who is doing this, and why are they not hanged from the nearest lamp-post?
In the US surely destroying somebody else’s vote would be a Federal felony.
In New Zealand we would not tolerate anybody’s vote being thrown out by anyone. Hell, our Ballots are not permitted to leave the polling station: not even the spoiled ones, not even the blank ones.
So how does this happen to the Military ballots? And what can be done to put an immediate stop to this outrage?
There was most definitely the appearance of an attempt to suppress the vote from Iraq this year. The mail inexplicably becoming "slow" around August when most of us were requesting absentee ballots from our home counties was one sign.
However, the Voting Assistance Office stayed on top of it, ecnouraging everyone via numerous flyers and e-mails to go get a provisional ballot from them and mail it in.
People here, military and civilian alike demonstrated a higher desire to vote this year than in any of the nearly five years I have been here. And I was here for the '04 election.
If I hear of specific situations where these votes are being discarded or thrown out, I will happily join any effort to reverse that ASAP.
Sorry Mam, but the bottom feeders will make sure that for each of us that do stand in line here, that 4 dead people, illegal aliens, or other non existant folks vote, thus wiping our vote out.
These people are intent on stealing this elction and I don’t lnow that we can stop them this time..
Thank you for that excellent post! Please tell your husband that our family honors him for his commitment and sacrifice as we honor and pray for all of the troops and their families. If anyone tries to suppress or discard their votes, we civilians owe it to them to fight that effort with all our might. Surely, if we unite, we can not only prevent that from happening in this election but in all future elections.
Bless your husband and your family and thank y’all for your service to our country!
Now THIS is a worthy vanity. Well written and pertinent.
Thank you, Marie.
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In my opinion, a valid vanity thread at this point...