Posted on 11/04/2008 2:31:43 PM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
This is a headline on foxnews.com, no story yet.
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This is my first post. I hope I did it right! If anyone should be guaranteed the right to vote, it should be our military. It would be absolutely outrageous for their votes not to count! That being said, what is meant by “preserving” their ballots?
Brevard county, FLA, said they don’t count mail-in ballots, either. The person there said they don’t even bother to open them because “they don’t really ever change anything anyway.”
Story is up now.
“A federal judge has ordered election officials in Virginia to preserve late-arriving absentee ballots that Republican John McCain’s campaign claims should be counted.
The McCain campaign says in a lawsuit that absentee ballots weren’t mailed on time to many military members serving overseas. The complaint asks the court to order the state to count absentee ballots from overseas troops postmarked by Tuesday and received by Nov. 14.
The deadline for ballots to be received is 7 p.m. on Election Day.
U.S. District Judge Richard Williams said Tuesday that he will hear the lawsuit on Nov. 10. He ordered election officials to keep the late-arriving ballots until then.”
How many total votes might this potentially involve, for all candidates??
Thanks for posting this story. I had heard about Senator
McCain’s lawsuit, but I have been waiting to hear about the outcome.
My best guess would be that “preserving” the ballots simply means counting them as valid votes and not trashing them.
I think I heard this is 10,000 ballots.
Thanks for that :)
christianhomeschoolmommaof3
antidisestablishmentarianism
Good post.....
I’m pretty sure you have the longest screen name and just one letter shy of the longest word in the language :)
LOL, maybe I should haved spelled out the 3 (three) then I woulda had it for sure!
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