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To: wyattearp
I think that absentee voting should be outlawed. No exceptions. If somebody doesn't consider voting to be important enough to be in town on that day and go to the polls, then the citizens of this state don't want their stinking vote anyways.

The people that you would hurt the most by banning absentee ballots would probably be military members. I know that I was often underwater (being a submariner) during an election. I also know that I have spent years away from my home state (initially Montana) due to military orders. Without absentee ballots my vote never would have counted. Of course it didn't count anyways, since elections departments routinely foul up absentee ballots and even if they get everything correct, they don't count them unless the race is close.

26 posted on 11/08/2005 3:46:54 PM PST by burzum (Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.-Adm H Rickover)
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To: burzum
The people that you would hurt the most by banning absentee ballots would probably be military members.

Oops. I hate it when I do that. The military are the only people that have a valid reason to be away from their polling place on voting day.

28 posted on 11/08/2005 4:19:12 PM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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