[Alas Babylon!]

Several thousand military personnel remain citizens of the states they are from and vote in those states, not in Texas or Florida if stationed there.

[Owen]

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Several thousand military personnel remain citizens of the states they are from and vote in those states, not in Texas or Florida if stationed there.
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You're mostly wrong, but partly right because I picked Texas and should have picked California. No, military people *do* have the right of changing their state of residency to wherever they live, and can maintain that new selected residency as long as they are in the military. A person in the military can call themselves residents of anywhere they lived -- though there is usually some time limit (meaning a 2 week TDY won't qualify).

So most in the military wait until they are stationed in TX or FL and then call that state home the rest of their career, because of no state income tax.

I said move from TX to FL and there'd be no advantage to moving the state of residency, so we'd need to move some troops from Calif or other states out of reach or safe, to FL, to add to our vote totals.