It's now part of a new state law that also requires overseas voters to date their ballots. That will avoid another dispute over military ballots without dated postmarks. The new law additionally lets election officials send ballots by fax or e-mail. They can be returned by fax, but not e-mail.
Those changes could mean more military votes cast and counted, and polls show that could help Bush.
"Whether it works to our benefit, it's what we should do," Mindy Tucker Fletcher, senior adviser for the Bush campaign in Florida, told The Associated Press. "They're the ones over there protecting our right to vote."
Federal law prohibits polling the military on voting intent, but most military personnel seem to favor Bush because of his wartime role as president, according to a poll taken by the Army Times Publishing Co. of its military readership.
An August Times-Union/Sun-Sentinel poll of 400 Florida veterans showed Bush leading Kerry 56 percent to 39 percent with a 5 percent plus or minus margin of error.
Oh, and I would take Tommy Franks stumping for us any day as opposed to who the democrats have trying to save sKerry.
Well, the General is a Florida resident, now...
me tooo!!
you know what, Im gonna confess something here... my neighbor in Fayetteville for the years he was there, was Gen. Hugh Shelton.. I LOVE(d) HIM... when he came out against ole Weasel Clark I laughed and laughed....the OTHER DAY, I saw him do an ON AIR spot for Kerry....I almost fainted.....I guess that fall from the ladder has left him adled...what in the WORLD could have made him do such a thing?? ....I'll never ever, write, christmas card, whatever with him and his wife again... heart breaking!!