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....
Absentee ballots are apparently not counted it the Election is not close . This is not right , and they should not be looked at after the election is decided .
This is why I think we need to strongly advocate nationwide
EARLY VOTING for ALL Armed Forces stationed overseas and on ships at sea .
If ACORN can pull it off , how much better the DoD ?
It can be done folks ! Start pushing!
We owe them this much!
Having been in the Air Force for twenty-two years and finally retired...I can offer some analysis of the situation.
The US military is fully prepared to take ballots and put them on cargo planes and carry them to the nearest mail port in the US within hours (not days or weeks). It has generally been that policy for the past two decades and I don’t know of a single commander who hasn’t made sure that cargo aircraft were in the right places for the week prior to election and made daily trips if necessary to the east or west coast. The problem...bluntly...is not the US military.
As you look across at all fifty states and the 3,141 counties in America...all with varying political candidates and various ballot initiatives...with the vast majority having barely enough electoral clerks to support the county itself. A lot of the absentee ballots are not made or finalized until almost a month prior to the election (common because of various errors that trigger one revision after another).
It would help greatly if the federal government simply said that all absentee ballots would be done and sent to the printers as of a week after the last convention ends. It would help greatly if the federal government mandated a PDF file print-out that any GI could print at the shop or office printer...fill it out and have his commander swear it was an authentic absentee ballot and then delivered to the cargo planes immediately.
I personally believe that neither party truly wants to fix the problem because they would have to fix each state and county’s poorly planned process that they operate with currently. Its the same chatter that we have over voter ID and the huge fight against national ID cards. Both parties are using this game...to help each other. Neither appreciates the military vote or the problems with the national election. Just my humble opinion.
There is a divorce in their future.
LLS
gee, maybe about 230 of these votes will be from minnesota and all
be for al franken!