You didn’t need to clarify, you coffee creamer counter you : {}
I understood you perfectly the first time and anyone who took it as anything other than what you clarified could only be construed as a hateful troublemaker. Oh, hey, isn’t that who precipitated the whole problem...hateful troublemakers.
I’m not near you, but I’ll do some digging to help you.
Virginia law does not require a witness address for any other type of absentee ballot. So, for example, a Virginia resident attending college out of state does not need to include her witness’ address on her absentee ballot envelope. But the Fairfax County Registrar is holding servicemembers, including those currently defending their country in war zones, to a much more exacting standard, requiring the witnesses who sign their FWABs to include their address.
To make matters worse, the Federal form (SF-186A) that is used for the FWAB does not have a space for witnesses to include their address. And the Department of Defense’s official Voting Assistance Guide, which it provides to servicemembers as an instruction manual for casting votes while overseas, does not tell servicemembers that they must include an address for their witness. The servicemember would thus have no way of knowing of this requirement.
Federal law does not allow this type of disparate treatment of servicemembers. The Uniform and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voter Act (UOCAVA), 42 U.S.C. § 1973ff-2, requires states to process FWABs “in the manner provided by law for absentee ballots in the State involved.” (emphasis added). In other words, the FWAB must be treated like any other absentee ballot under state law and may not be subject to more restrictive requirements. Yet that is precisely what is being done here.
http://www.soldiersperspective.us/2008/10/22/military-being-censored-in-virginia/
The following is a list of other classes of absentee ballots requiring the address of a witness in Fairfax County:
There. All done.
http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/10/22/unreal-virginia/
Thanks for the feedback and for the link! Like your about page, too—very kick-ass.