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Four years after overseas voting became a battleground in the presidential election in Florida, millions of civilians and soldiers living abroad still face a bewildering and unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted. Election officials concede that tens of thousands of Americans overseas might not get their ballots in time to cast their votes. Late primaries and legal wrangling caused local election offices in several battleground states to fail to mail out their absentee ballots by Sept. 20, a cutoff date that officials say is necessary to ensure that everyone can return them on...