[HEY4QDEMS]

30% wow

It's sad that absentee ballots are the cause, for I fear that if they can't correct the problem, there will be a moratorium placed on absentee voting which will take the voice away from young men and women in the military.

[FreedomPoster]

>>there will be a moratorium placed on absentee voting which will take the voice away from young men and women in
the military.

If we take voting away from members of the military, I predict the military will take over within 25 years.

I still can't believe the Dims were disenfranchising the military in FL in 2000. Long term, that is simply playing with fire.

[EggsAckley]

In my county, my neighborhood always had a voting precinct until this election. This little area is home to about five hundred families, and none of us is much farther than four or five miles from the old precinct. But this year we were notified that the ONLY way we could vote was by absentee ballot. I sort of enjoyed the process of going to the polls to vote, and resent this right being yanked from us.

[sweetliberty]

"I fear that if they can't correct the problem, there will be a moratorium placed on absentee voting which will take the voice away from young men and women in the military."

I don't know if it is the same in other states but in Arkansas the military (at least overseas ones) absentee ballots are easily identifiable from the others and are sorted and counted separately from the rest.

[alloysteel]

Military absentee ballots were thrown out in Florida in 2000, just one of the sidebars to the election mess there. Throwing out absentee ballots everywhere would probably negatively affect the Republican vote total much more than the Democrat vote total. Which is why so many absentee ballots are "lost" in major Democrat areas, and yet the fact goes largely unremarked.

[Dratlatl]

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.

[88keys]

from the article:

Larry Sabato calls absentee voting "the preferred choice of those who commit voter fraud." In an attempt to get more people to the polls, 29 states don't require voters to state any good reason to receive an absentee ballot..."

The reason for voting absentee is, I think, the real key...i.e.; military service; college student; elderly "shut-in"; work schedule; etc.

For example, my elderly mother-in-law no longer drives, so I called her to make sure my sister-in-law was able to take her to the polls; my sister-in-law had to work a 12-hour shift that day, but...they had both already voted absentee for good reasons that were easily verifiable...

(mom said she does miss actually going out to the voting place, and since she always votes the right way heHE, I made a date to take her myself for the next big election...!)