I just got an email yesterday from my wife's cousin who is serving in South Korea. He is registered in Pennsylvania, and NOT in one of those two counties mentioned and has NOT received his absentee ballot yet. We're only 10 days out from election day, something is horribly wrong here.
My daughter, who's in school in NY just got her absentee ballot Friday. They were supposed to be sent out the first week of October. Last week a Bush campaign worker came to my door. I asked him about it, and he said the county staff was swamped with all the late registrations, but would have the absentee ballots out next week - which turned out to be accurate.
Something I've been wondering about all those registrations - was that all also a ploy to make the election invalid and drag it into the courts? If county staff doesn't have the help to handle all the thousands of registrations that arrived in bulk the last few days, how can they handle all the other election stuff like have the ballots printed and distributed, getting the absentee ballots out, ensuring they have enough people lined up for the count, etc. When even a small rural county gets inundated with registrations in the last week, think of how much disruption (and later lawsuit potential) that has created across the country?
Point him to the federal online write-in ballot. http://www.fvap.gov/pubs/onlinefwab.html