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  • Many Soldiers In Iraq May Skip Vote

    11/01/2008 8:16:18 PM PDT · by george76 · 38 replies · 2,548+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Nov. 1, 2008 | Denis D. Gray
    Low Return On Absentee Ballots Expected; Some Officers Refuse To Vote To Underscore Political Neutrality. Soldiers must request by mail an absentee ballot from the local election district where they last lived. Then they are sent a paper ballot to fill out and mail back. Some soldiers said they never got ballots. The number of absentee military ballots applied for that ultimately get counted is consistently low. In the last federal election, only about 30 percent of overseas military ballots were tallied...
  • Troops may run out of time to cast ballots

    11/01/2008 9:07:02 PM PDT · by FocusNexus · 33 replies · 751+ views
    Dallas Morning News ^ | Nov. 1, 2008 | JOHN RILEY
    For U.S. troops serving overseas, nothing comes easy. Not even voting. Military members may not have enough time to complete and mail in their absentee ballots for Tuesday's election, thanks to slow mail delivery, lack of information sharing among election officials, and procedural errors. In the 2006 elections, about a third of the close to 1 million absentee ballots requested by uniformed overseas voters were returned and tallied, essentially disenfranchising the remaining 600,000-plus service members, according to the federal Election Assistance Commission. Barack Obama and John McCain have called on state election officials to reduce the voting obstacles for preventing...