I suspect...if you go back over fifty years....you’d find that barely half of all military votes ended up being counted throughout the US. In some counties, it might be a 100-percent count, but the majority are probably not going to show any positive statistics over the whole time period.
The military has gone to various extremes...ensuring military cargo planes were prepared to bring mail directly back to the US and given to a major distribution center. They’ve appointed base officers to distribute registration forms, stamp them official and act as an agent of the US government. They’ve even looked at this idea of a computer software situation where you could vote online and it’d be delivered to each state via an acceptable method.
I believe...if we can’t reach some conclusion where a GI can believe or trust in his vote being counted....then we ought not tax GI’s either at the state level or the national level. It’s that simple.
Good idea pepsionice... Thanks for sharing.
I could not agree with you more. “No taxation without representation!” A lot of FReepers are ready to draw blood over this, and I am one of them.
Thank you for the ping, Dave.