Posted on 03/16/2015 11:53:29 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
While Israeli citizens only began voting Tuesday morning, IDF soldiers across Israeli have been casting their ballots since Saturday night.
For elections, the IDF distributed polling stations to seven command centers: Central Command, Southern Command, Northern Command, Home Front Command, the Technology and Logistics Division, the Navy, and the Air Force.
The command centers were divided into over 60 areas, each with an elections authority officiating. In total 688 ballot stations were set up for soldiers across the Jewish state.
The first to vote on Saturday night were Air Force officers in the Sde Dov airport, before traveling abroad as part of official military duties.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The soldiers’ vote usually goes to the Right and it may make a crucial difference in a tight race.
Anyone on gubmint payroll (federal or state level) should not be allowed to vote, imho. Including the politicians themselves. Let the tax payers without conflict of interest vote. And their votes should be proportional to the tax (of all forms) that they personally pay.
Hear Hear!
Actually re-reading it, I do not believe in proportional voting. But disallowing people on government payroll & on the dole shouldn’t either.
Uh...no. Gov employees pay taxes too and no ones vote should count more than anyone else.
Now if you want to talk about suspending the right to vote for people who are on the dole such as on welfare; that's a conversation worth having.
yea , and how about if we all go and defend our own asses as well . Why not? Somebody should actually earn what they get to enjoy .
I don’t know about that, but I always felt that people on welfare should NOT be allowed to vote on tax issues.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Unlike the American (demodummie) system where military votes are not counted or arrive well after the elections are over.
Must be a good system if the demodummies don’t like it as it takes away their chances of winning.
As late as the 1930's, many states prohibited paupers from voting (you had to take the "pauper's oath" to receive public assistance). Other states required payment of a poll tax. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, ended this.
How the US Military votes:
1. If the military person is stationed in the US, they may request a ballot from the county where their residence still is and they are on that county voting list, or where they last lived if they don’t have a residence in that county anymore but are on the voting list of that county. Or, they may register to vote in the county where they are stationed.
2. Overseas military ballots
These ballots are in a special looking envelope to designate them from regular early voting envelopes. They are readily identified as military ballots due to the envelope having a different look than regular ballot envelopes.
3. There is a designated military election officer at every post where our military is stationed across the world. This officer distributes ballots and ballot envelopes and gathers the ballot envelopes and mails them to the US county where the military person last lived, whether or not they are on that county’s voter list. If they are not on that county’s voter list, their name is added to the voter list and the ballot counted.
4. The military ballots have “x” number of days after the election for those ballots to come in if they are late (after election day). The ballots are counted then. Normally, they are not late. They are usually in the county by the time early voting is over and before election day.
I was the Judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board in my county and it is that board that qualifies all mail in ballots - that is why I know military ballot envelopes are different in look.
One time, I spoke to a military ballot officer so I know how those ballots get to the states.
We had a problem in Florida during the Bush/Gore election when the ballots were recounted. The people doing the recounting didn’t understand about military ballots and they were rejecting those ballots where the military person wasn’t on the county voter list, or the ones that came in a day or two after the election. I spoke to the state Republican Chairman in Florida and went over the law with him and those military ballots got counted. I was also in contact with the Florida Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, during this Florida fiasco election.
After that election, new election laws were passed, one of those laws doing away with ballots that created “chads”. Those are not used anymore.
That was one good thing - no more chads.
Lil late to this thread - just doing some IDF research..
In regard to folks in the Govt. should not vote - I left the private sector 5 months ago for management in State Government - Trust me - you want guys like me in government... and I should vote...
That said, I’m in Wisco and the Unions are dead - woot woot...
“I left the private sector 5 months ago for management in State Government - Trust me - you want guys like me in government... and I should vote...”
Would you care to elaborate why we need guys like you? What value-added function are you performing through your gubmint management position? Are you helping to shrink the gubmint?
If you are working “for” the gubmint bureaucracy, the ONLY responsible thing you can do is to make your position unnecessary and (ideally) your entire department unnecessary. The only people in the gubmint should be those elected to serve there and are constitutionally mandated to serve. 90% of the gubmint positions are useless, cost us our hard earned money, and erode our rights.
I’m happy to eliminate my position - although that reality is not likely in the immediate future - so in the mean time - I will do everything in my power not to waste tax payer money.
In my short time I have found nearly 500k worth of wasteful redundant spending - which is not going into any budget this year. I consider that a win...
I kinda like where I’m at right now - and if I wasn’t sitting at my desk there is a better than average chance that some commie would be sitting there fattening the hog...
My boss and I joke (he’s also conservative - came from private 5 months before me) that at the end of the day we should be one step closer eliminating ourselves.. and I’m OK with that...
Otherwise I fully agree with you - Somebodies gotta get in there - the bureaucracies are infested with layers of commies - gotta start somewhere...
I think I’m doing a pretty good job - and I’m not trying to build any sort of endless job security - I can go anywhere - but I like what I’m doing now.
>>The soldiers’ vote usually goes to the Right and it may make a crucial difference in a tight race.
Which is why Gore’s operatives worked so hard to invalidate military absentee ballots in the 2000 election. Lots of military folks use FL as their permanent address, as Florida has no income taxes.
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