Raleigh, NC -- At least half of North Carolina's National Guard troops in Iraq failed to receive their absentee ballots in time for their votes to be counted, according to an officer helping to handle voting. "I can tell you that from experience because I didn't get mine, either," Lt. Michelle Locke told The News & Observer on Thursday in a telephone interview from a base northeast of Baghdad. Locke, 30, of Fayetteville said troops who wanted to vote in the November 2 general election received special all-write-in ballots that had been sent by the military in case something went...