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the best solution to this problem is to allow and require all active duty and deployed to VOTE EARLY and have those votes tabulated electronically in advance of any future election. The mail-in Absentee ballots are worthless in an election such as the one we just had . This situation needs to be corrected . Let's fix it!
1 posted on 11/11/2008 1:15:58 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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2 posted on 11/11/2008 1:17:29 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

OSAMABAMA is “elected” by addition of frauds and lies...
Is he really POTUS elected????


3 posted on 11/11/2008 1:19:31 AM PST by Ulysse
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To: LeoWindhorse
Military personnel should be the first in line to vote. Period!

I read about this Ohio woman whose husband was deployed in Iraq and she openly laughed about how she took her husbands ballot and voted for Obama! I wonder how many other ballots were hijacked?

Sick Sad World....

4 posted on 11/11/2008 1:24:11 AM PST by BossLady (Remember, Remember the 4th of November.....)
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To: LeoWindhorse
SURPRISE... NOT!
5 posted on 11/11/2008 1:28:24 AM PST by tomymind (McCain is my President)
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To: LeoWindhorse

What else is new? Dems pull every dirty trick they can to deny the Military, especially overseas, their right to vote.

When was the last time you heard of ACORN recruting voters of the Military?


8 posted on 11/11/2008 1:30:39 AM PST by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I’m sorry but being a military family this really pisses me off! I don’t care what the rules are for absentee ballots and the other BS.

Anyone serving in out Armed Forces had better get their votes counted first before anyone! We owe it to them. If not for them we would not have the freedom to vote anyway.

We need to do something about this people. We can’t allow them to treat our Troops this way! I am fighting mad!!!


12 posted on 11/11/2008 1:49:49 AM PST by SoldiersSister (SoldiersSister)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I am not even sure why Ballots must be sent from a theater of operation to America. Could not the different divisions of the branches be their own polling place and the results be called in to the various states?

We can trust ACORN as well as the other nefarious characters at polling places but not our soldiers? To hell with that.


13 posted on 11/11/2008 1:54:49 AM PST by WildcatClan (If we are the one's we have been waiting for, we must be incredibly stupid.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I am a clerk in a Wisconsin town, and want to assure all of you that regardless of the closeness of an election, all absentee ballots are counted here, both military and regular. I don’t know what happens in the larger cities in Wisconsin, but state law requires that absentee ballots be counted.


15 posted on 11/11/2008 2:32:11 AM PST by GrannyML
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To: LeoWindhorse

I bet NPR wouldn’t be so concerned if this election had been a lot closer.


16 posted on 11/11/2008 2:35:50 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I read on another FR thread today that the final tally of the votes that pushed Obama over the edge were only half a million.

It was a tally of how many votes Obama won by in specific states that could have turned the election.

In NC, for example, it was only 6997 votes that Obama won by. I remembered because I had urged a NC friend to make sure to vote McCain.

Sorry too lazy at late hour to look up the thread.


17 posted on 11/11/2008 2:43:54 AM PST by IreneE ("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy." - my paraphrase of Thomas Aquinas)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Of all places, on HuffPo there is a very interesting article by one Scott Kesterson on the subject of Obama and the military. Nearly 800 replies, mostly condemning the author for choosing such a subject and the troops cited.

Last place you’d expect to see this but it’s amazingly honest. The troops are disgusted and demoralized by the election result. If only I was permitted I’d post the article here.

Says one “As a military officer I will serve whoever is Commander and Chief. But this is the wrong guy for the job, and the wrong time for our country. He’s weak.” says another “This is proof that the media can elect a President.”

Another soldier continued, “You know what really sucks is that NONE OF OUR VOTES COUNT. Sure, we voted, but they are absentee ballots. They only are counted in the event of a tie. What type of statement is that towards democracy. You fight, you die, but your vote while deployed doesn’t count.”

Google link, not HuffPo:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22restricted%20by%20the%20rules%20of%20engagement%20established%20by%20NATO%20and%20the%20Karzai%20%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn


18 posted on 11/11/2008 2:44:34 AM PST by tlb
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To: LeoWindhorse

That is it! This will stop ..I don’t give a flying fig if Obama has been ordained god of the Socialist world...our Military will be treated fairly. Enough of this BS.


22 posted on 11/11/2008 3:16:35 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: LeoWindhorse

They fight for free elections in other countries and are dentied the same back home. Sickening. Thank you for those links, they should be allowed to vote early.


25 posted on 11/11/2008 4:10:22 AM PST by SueRae
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To: LeoWindhorse

The dimlibs pulled this same crap in 2000. No surprise here. Voting irregularities are part of their stock in trade.


28 posted on 11/11/2008 4:25:20 AM PST by Marauder (I never thought America would elect a socialist president.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Liberals whine about disenfranchisement when felons and illegals can’t vote but the bastards sure love getting military votes thrown out.

In a perfect world they’d be tarred and feathered for starters.


29 posted on 11/11/2008 4:35:56 AM PST by SeminoleSoldier
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To: Old Sarge; MEG33; LUV W; SandRat; Kathy in Alaska; beachn4fun

I don’t have my Canteen ping list handy, but take a look at this.


30 posted on 11/11/2008 5:18:28 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The USA is now under Marxist siege.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Same old same old..It just makes me sick.


33 posted on 11/11/2008 5:50:04 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: LeoWindhorse; Arrowhead; laurenmarlowe; StarCMC; AZamericonnie; MS.BEHAVIN; Brad's Gramma; ...
Each state has dates for military ballots for the military serving overseas - Click

Getting absentee ballots, or not, to our military overseas seems to be a conscious effort on the part of some states. Not counting them seems to be another conscious effort by individual states. It is disgusting!!!!

35 posted on 11/11/2008 9:42:27 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: LeoWindhorse

This isn’t really unusual, and it isn’t sinister. Unless absentee/military votes might make a difference in a given election, there isn’t any real need to count them.

For example, if candidate X wins the election by 100,000 votes in a given State, and there are only 25,000 absentee/military votes, counting them would have no effect.


36 posted on 11/11/2008 9:46:11 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: LeoWindhorse
There is one advantage to living in Louisiana: lots of oak trees..

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...

48 posted on 11/13/2008 6:08:49 AM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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