Posted on 11/11/2008 1:15:58 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
Voting experts are expecting a huge wave of military absentee ballots this year. The 184,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have a lot at stake in the vote to choose their next commander-in-chief.
The mechanics of military voting are better than they used to be. But "better" doesn't always cut it for troops in war zones.
Teresa Purcell got a call from her husband nine days before Election Day. "You're not going to believe this," he said, "we're not going to be allowed to vote for president of the United States because we're not getting the ballots."
Robert Purcell was calling from Afghanistan, where he's serving with the New York National Guard.
He told his wife his troops got ballots, but that they were the wrong ones.
"He said, 'They gave us the ballots for the local Puerto Rico election,'" Teresa recalls.
It's not clear what happened, or whether the snafu can be fixed in time for his 13 troops to meet New York's deadline.
But his phone call coming from a true battleground on the eve of the U.S. election illustrates the many glitches in military voting.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
How could this happen???
I only used the NPR article to start this thread because it was the ONLY related article I could find on the subject.
What dies that tell ya?.......
I INVITE all who are concerned about this issue to JOIN
the Gathering of Eagles organization , in the state your are in , or nationally , and HELP us tackle and FIX this issue , once and for all.....
It is simple unacceptable the way things are .
Sadly, it’s too late to help. It angers me that the ones
who are defending our right to free elections are being
prevented from voting in them! GRRRR!
It’s NOT too late to help
We cannot change the result of the Election
but if we WORK HARD and don’t slack off
we can change this so this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.
and that will help.....
For our troops , it’s the least we can do !
S. 3073
Military Voting Protection Act of 2008
A bill to amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to improve procedures for the collection and delivery of absentee ballots of absent overseas uniformed services voters, and for other purposes.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3073/show
H.R. 5673
Military Voting Protection Act of 2008
To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to direct the Secretary of Defense to collect absentee ballots of absent overseas uniformed services voters for elections for Federal office and deliver the ballots to State election officials prior to the time established for the closing of the polls on the date of the election, and for other purposes.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5673/show
Knowing that our military votes were being discarded or lost, it gave me great please to run over acorns as I was bike riding.
I am not referring to members of A.C.O.R.N. I am literally talking about those little things that fall from oak trees.
It gave a real pleasure to squash those tiny nuts with the fraud in this election by the A.C.O.R.N. crack heads.
Maybe I am just guilty of cracking or breaking acorns, as opposed to people who are crack heads and work for A.C.O.R.N.
It was something that gave me some comic relief from this election...
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