Actually I don’t think ANYONE should be able to vote by email or fax.
The US Military is fully capable of getting a paper ballot back to your precinct on-time.
“The US Military is fully capable of getting a paper ballot back to your precinct on-time.”
I hear you but the military has had a problem at times getting the overseas military ballots back by the deadline.
Funny how they weren’t able to get my paper ballot to me in the middle of the Red Sea. I received it six weeks after the election.
Mailed my tax return the same year from the same location and IRS didn’t receive it until early July. Sent me a letter with late fees and interest, so I wrote a nice letter back telling them to send the bill to the Pentagon, c/o the Chief of Naval Operations. Never heard from them again.
No they aren’t. 65% of the time if you’re lucky. The problem isn’t so much with military personnel stationed at well established overseas bases, the problem comes when it’s Marines and sailors aboard ships, or soldiers and Marines on FOB’s. Mail delivery sucks to put it mildly when it comes to delivery to and from ships or FOB’s. I’m speaking from experience on this, my experience and that of two of my sons. Email or fax ballots are the only way to ensure they are received on time.
That is a laugh! My youngest son’s ballot made it to his base in Iraq 45 days after the election. If he had been allowed to vote by email or fax, his vote would have counted. As it was, a soldier fighting in a combat zone was not given the opportunity to have a say in the leaders of his country.
Absentee ballots need to be done away with, except in the case of military stationed out of the area and those with a proven reason for not being in town on Election Day. Saw too many Democratic election aides bringing in 10 or so absentee ballots marked with just an “X” to believe there isn’t a ton of fraud going on with those.