“They did stop military ballots... in FL.”
I was listening to the election and as a military retiree, I took great offence to how the military vote in Florida was mishandled.
It is my understanding that the votes were disqualified, and never counted, because they did not go through the prescribed route of using the APO New York. And those votes were never counted even though they arrived on time.
But when you consider that a few thousands of votes were disqualified as a double vote when the tallying machine was misinterpreting the ballot reading a vote where it was creased when folded properly to be put in the box, and those were never looked into, there was a lot of problems down there that weren’t available to the public. Some even now.
It also isn’t just a Florida problem. In the governor’s race in Washington State in 2004, the auditors office didn’t get the overseas ballots into the mail in time for them to be returned. They started arriving less than a week after the election. And even though there were three recounts, and finally the liberal candidate finally winning with “found” ballots not inexistence on election day, the military votes, even though they were there the same as the found ballots, were never counted. They have since, as I understand it, been destroyed after holding for a number of years.
On the average, a minimum of 325K votes from the military are tossed each year questionably by states establishing numerous difficult rules to comply with and not getting the ballots mailed out in time for return.
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Yes— they were “disqualified” for lack of a.... POSTMARK!
Total utter BS. Getting angry remembering it. Was much younger then and hopping mad.... NAVY mad, Marine Corps mad!
It also happened at the Orlando MCO airport postal sectional center who took in APO mail off military planes— and redirected them to further delay their acceptance, and ultimately not count them. Just-— well, beyond angry. The utter disregard for military overseas serving men and women— however they had voted. Gdm the demonrats to a special hell.