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To: Mortrey

If they can vote anytime up until the election why do they need until 3 days after anyway?


8 posted on 08/02/2012 5:20:46 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Average Al
If they can vote anytime up until the election why do they need until 3 days after anyway?

If an "ordinary" citizen can vote in that way up until "X" why can't members of the Armed Forces...who have endured,and *are* enduring,so much suffering in the last 10 years...vote until "X + 3"????????

10 posted on 08/02/2012 5:27:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: Average Al
If they can vote anytime up until the election why do they need until 3 days after anyway?

Nobody can vote anytime up until election day.

From the article:

Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military three extra days to do so.
The Obama campaign is objecting to the three extra days before the election during which the military, but not other voters, can cast an early ballot.
16 posted on 08/02/2012 6:00:08 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Average Al

“If they can vote anytime up until the election why do they need until 3 days after anyway?”
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Ahh....I take it you haven’t experienced the occasional, and frequently unexpected, vagaries of military service.


17 posted on 08/02/2012 6:02:15 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Average Al

“If they can vote anytime up until the election why do they need until 3 days after anyway?”

Because of mail-in ballots. The military mail system (from war zones) can take an erratic amount of time. They were trying to give our guys a chance to get their ballots in.

In the last election, my husband requested his ballot 6 weeks out. He got it just a couple of days before the election. No idea if his vote counted or not.

And yes. He was seriously p*ssed.


20 posted on 08/02/2012 6:06:33 PM PDT by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: Average Al

To allow for the possibility that service members might have missed the normal deadline because they were busy fulfilling their duty.

Think of it this way:

individuals in military = pro American

Obama/Democrat Party = anti American


61 posted on 08/03/2012 5:01:29 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: Average Al

Because submarines don’t have the daily mail.


86 posted on 08/03/2012 1:28:00 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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