I did a quick search for articles verifying that military votes often are not counted. I’m hoping that more active and retired military will post their experiences or knowledge about this. Snips of just a few of the many articles I found.
GOP lawmakers say ‘thousands’ of military votes will not be counted
By Eric Katz November 6, 2012
Several Republican lawmakers have voiced concern about the system members of the military use to vote, claiming the slow mail process will cause thousands of ballots to not be counted.
Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., John McCain, R-Ariz., Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter to Defense Department Secretary Leon Panetta on the eve of the election, saying military mail can take between 14 and 50 days to process and ballots will therefore arrive at their intended destinations well after the election.
Half of Overseas Ballots Not Counted
Stars and Stripes | By Leo Shane III | September 26, 2007
WASHINGTON — Overseas military voters had less than half of their votes counted in last year’s congressional elections, according to data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Monday.
“One thing is clear: At every level of government, we need to do a better job,” said Donetta Davidson, chair of the commission. “We must make sure all eligible voters are getting their opportunities.”
The figures, released at the commission’s annual conference on ways to improve and troubleshoot the absentee voting process, showed that only about 992,000 of the nearly 6 million eligible overseas citizens requested ballots for the 2006 general election.
That included about 119,000 military personnel stationed outside the United States. Of those, only about 57,000 — less than 48 percent — had their votes successfully cast or counted.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,150477,00.html
Some Military Votes May Not Be Counted
November 1, 20084:05 PM ET
Voting experts are expecting a huge wave of military absentee ballots this year. The 184,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have a lot at stake in the vote to choose their next commander-in-chief.
The mechanics of military voting are better than they used to be. But “better” doesn’t always cut it for troops in war zones.
Teresa Purcell got a call from her husband nine days before Election Day. “You’re not going to believe this,” he said, “we’re not going to be allowed to vote for president of the United States because we’re not getting the ballots.”
Robert Purcell was calling from Afghanistan, where he’s serving with the New York National Guard.
He told his wife his troops got ballots, but that they were the wrong ones.
“He said, ‘They gave us the ballots for the local Puerto Rico election,’” Teresa recalls.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96437123
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