Hopefully not. Sure didn't come across that way to me. Kudos to the man for this column.
Doesn't sound like a lot of effort has been put into this important item. Seems like more fun to have stories and find someone to blame.
If the military is really serious they only need to create a special process for this. At each post would be a special mailbox for ballots and it would also have special ballot envelopes. Something like a FedEx box setup. Then use a special expedite process and have mail from these boxes all clear to only a couple of locations in the States and then stamp them with a military ballot postmark. Then send them into the regular post system.