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To: HEY4QDEMS
The military could be exempt from any law prohibiting absentee ballots.

Personally, I'd like to see absentee ballots done away with, except for the military, and allow people to vote early by going to the county registrar's office and leaving their sealed ballot there. It's time to put a stop to passing out ballots like cheap newspaper shopper coupons.

If some poor soul is disenfranchised by such a perverse confluence of events that he is unable to cast a vote, then that's a flaw to live with that's preferable to maintaining a system that almost provides for the theft of elections by those least qualified to hold office. Voter fraud is such a direct attack on our system that I can think of no valid reason why the death penalty should not be applied to those who practice it; God knows I have enough friends who ostensibly died to provide us this right, and to punish those who would try to deprive us of it would be both poetic and just.

40 posted on 11/11/2002 8:34:06 AM PST by Dratlatl
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To: Dratlatl
I agree that absentee ballots should be done away with. Voting should only be done by those who care enough to be inconvenienced by going to the polls.
As for the military, how many of them wouldn't be able to make it to the base or PX to cast a vote there?
It should be fairly simple to set up a polling place on a military base.
42 posted on 11/11/2002 8:49:42 AM PST by MrB
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