Posted on 10/23/2008 5:53:49 PM PDT by george76
A tussle over military votes in Virginia reveals a scrap for every single vote.
Virginia campaign officials for GOP presidential candidate John McCain are saying that some Fairfax County absentee ballots — and possibly some in Hampton Roads — from overseas service members are getting rejected due to a technicality.
But the Fairfax registrar said that he is following state law in rejecting a small number of absentee ballots that come in at the same time as the voter's application.
McCain's Virginia campaign officials called a press conference Thursday afternoon in Fairfax to say that a specific type of absentee ballot — the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot — was getting wrongly rejected in Fairfax, the state's largest locality, and possibly other cities or counties. This type of ballot is used as a sort of safety net by service members who aren't sure if the state absentee ballot they requested will make it to them in time.
One McCain campaign representative also said this might be happening in Arlington and Norfolk.
Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law — then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling —
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We don’t have a chance with all of this cheating.
Here we go again!
You are good enough to fight for your country soldier but we won’t count your vote. Sad and WRONG!
thanks
Contrarily, things like this getting out is another “paper cut’ of many paper cuts coming on nobama and his supporters. I can not see how an undecided likely voter can see all this vote suppression and vote fraud as a good reason to vote for nobama.
The DemocRATS are at it again! Disenfranchising military personnel. I hate those Commie bass turds.
God help me but these people are just evil and I hate them also. I have NEVER in all my voting years seen anything like this. I thought the last election was bad, but that was nothing. If nothing else, I do believe the MSM is done.
The Commies and Marxists are in charge now. I’m very disappointed that Bush and his boys are just standing around and allowing the Obamacorns to steal this thing.
All of these federal ballots should be set aside then compared to state absentee ballots if need be. Just rejecting them out-right is a violation of rights.
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