This is my first post. I hope I did it right! If anyone should be guaranteed the right to vote, it should be our military. It would be absolutely outrageous for their votes not to count! That being said, what is meant by “preserving” their ballots?
Story is up now.
“A federal judge has ordered election officials in Virginia to preserve late-arriving absentee ballots that Republican John McCain’s campaign claims should be counted.
The McCain campaign says in a lawsuit that absentee ballots weren’t mailed on time to many military members serving overseas. The complaint asks the court to order the state to count absentee ballots from overseas troops postmarked by Tuesday and received by Nov. 14.
The deadline for ballots to be received is 7 p.m. on Election Day.
U.S. District Judge Richard Williams said Tuesday that he will hear the lawsuit on Nov. 10. He ordered election officials to keep the late-arriving ballots until then.”
Thanks for posting this story. I had heard about Senator
McCain’s lawsuit, but I have been waiting to hear about the outcome.
My best guess would be that “preserving” the ballots simply means counting them as valid votes and not trashing them.
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Good post.....
I’m pretty sure you have the longest screen name and just one letter shy of the longest word in the language :)