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Complicated process deters soldiers, dependents from voting
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 10/15/2008 9:10:00 AM
Conservative columnist and political analyst John Fund believes two-thirds of the military personnel serving overseas will not be able to vote this presidential election because of bureaucratic red tape.
Recently The Associated Press reported that during the 2006 midterm elections, only 30 percent of the overseas military votes were counted, according to data from the Pew Center on the States and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the latter of which monitors election problems. The article said many ballots arrived late, some were not filled out properly, some were mailed to the wrong location, and some -- for whatever reason -- were not mailed back at all. It also added states and local election districts that have competing, and sometimes confounding, rules governing overseas ballots are contributing to the confusion.
John Fund is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and recently published a book titled Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. He believes most overseas service personnel will not be able to vote for America's commander-in-chief in 2008.
"About two-thirds of America's servicemen simply find the bureaucratic obstacle of getting the ballot mailed to them, having time to fill it out, and mailing it back in time to be counted [to be] very difficult," Fund explains. "So we have about two-million Americans living abroad -- most of them servicemen and their dependents -- and about two-thirds of them will end up not voting...some because they choose not to, and some because it's simply too complicated."
Fund contends that in a close election, the military vote could be the difference in whether U.S. troops stay in battle or are brought home.
Comments on this article:
"I remember some years ago, the Bill Clinton administration tried mightily to keep the votes of many service men and women from being counted. The military knows intuitively that the Democrats "loathe them" - in the words of Bill Clinton, because the military takes up much of the budget that the Democrats could otherwise spend on Social give-away programs."
PASS THIS ON TO ALL - NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Complicated process deters soldiers, dependents from voting
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 10/15/2008 9:10:00 AM
Conservative columnist and political analyst John Fund believes two-thirds of the military personnel serving overseas will not be able to vote this presidential election because of bureaucratic red tape.
Recently The Associated Press reported that during the 2006 midterm elections, only 30 percent of the overseas military votes were counted, according to data from the Pew Center on the States and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the latter of which monitors election problems. The article said many ballots arrived late, some were not filled out properly, some were mailed to the wrong location, and some -- for whatever reason -- were not mailed back at all. It also added states and local election districts that have competing, and sometimes confounding, rules governing overseas ballots are contributing to the confusion.
John Fund is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and recently published a book titled Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. He believes most overseas service personnel will not be able to vote for America's commander-in-chief in 2008.
"About two-thirds of America's servicemen simply find the bureaucratic obstacle of getting the ballot mailed to them, having time to fill it out, and mailing it back in time to be counted [to be] very difficult," Fund explains. "So we have about two-million Americans living abroad -- most of them servicemen and their dependents -- and about two-thirds of them will end up not voting...some because they choose not to, and some because it's simply too complicated."
Fund contends that in a close election, the military vote could be the difference in whether U.S. troops stay in battle or are brought home.
Comments on this article:
"I remember some years ago, the Bill Clinton administration tried mightily to keep the votes of many service men and women from being counted. The military knows intuitively that the Democrats "loathe them" - in the words of Bill Clinton, because the military takes up much of the budget that the Democrats could otherwise spend on Social give-away programs."
PASS THIS ON TO ALL - NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!