Posted on 10/21/2008 5:26:15 PM PDT by Libloather
Missing Miltary Absentee Ballots
Posted By: Mike Igoe
10 hrs ago
Election Day is just a few weeks away now.
And people who can't make it to the polls, such as those serving in the military, have the option of using an absentee ballot.
Darelene Hedges of Depew called 2 On Your Side on behalf of her son who discovered there was a problem with his.
Her son Joshua is serving with the National Guard in Afghanistan. He was told the absentee ballots for his overseas base had been lost.
Darlene tells us her son, and the people serving with him, are upset about possibly losing their votes, especially considering what they're facing in that foreign country right now.
Darlene Hedges: "He said that he and all the people on the base with him have been fighting and some of them dying for their country. If anyone has the right to vote it should be them, and the votes are not gonna be counted."
The Erie County Board of Elections tells 2 On Your Side service people like Joshua do have options they may be able to use.
Dennis Ward, Erie County Elections Commissioner: "They have the opportunity to use the internet and download the application and forward another application if in fact they could get it here in time. The military can also make available to them a special write in ballot in which they can write in the names of candidates as long as the military can get it to the Board of Elections within 10 days after the election it will be counted."
The Board of Elections has been in contact with Darlene to share the options Joshua and other service people have.
There are options? Kewl. Maybe allow military members to text message their vote. Front line gets to the front of the line.
Great...and the military is going 3-1 McCain.
Dear Lord, help us. Please.
Deja vu.
Deja vu.
No kidding! Somebody needs to emasculate these cheating b@stards!
Democrats are lowest form of life on earth.
But I am sure that every convicted felon in the state of Florida has his ballot.
DemocRATs hate the military. Why should they allow them to vote?
Obamanation has a hand in this no doubt. The Anti-Christ is going to take this nation and use it for bring about Armaggedon
Here is what can be done. Load up voting officials form all 50 states on a couple of C-5 Galaxy aircraft (trust me, they’re big enough), and you take the voting booths to Afghanistan!
That, or deptizes some officers as voter’s regents and administer the vote there. Results are sent electronically.
They can be called APC, much like APO for an overseas American Post Offices.
Nobody cares about “those guys.” Remember 2000?
Oh this is just great.... Lost military ballots.....and now the report of people in VA receiving more than 1 absentee ballot. Way to rig an election democRATS
Are you kiddng? Have you ever talked to some of them? Somebody already has! .
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Except for some of the womyn.
So true.
Amen!!!!!!!!!!
loathesome traitorous idiot Marxist globalist scum.
For all for whom repentance is totally not a realistic probability—May they reap a 100 fold the evil they perpetrate.
Is there ANYTHING we can do about this? In God's name, there has to be a way to turn this around. I'm sick to my stomach.
PING!!!!!!!!
How in h*ll do they get lost in the first place??? Doesn't the military have planes? Why don't they fly them in? But, maybe they do then they got lost.
I'm sick of hearing about this happening. I'm fed up with the libs.
I don’t think they are “Lost”.
I think ACORN found ‘em and voted Dumbocrap on them already. After all it would take too long to send them all the way to Afghanistan and back. This way it saves time, and shipping costs and “all votes count” . . .
I am sick of this and if their ballots don’t get to count I think we need to do something about it, this is BS and I don’t trust the RATS, their stink is all over this.
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