| #1 As a former voting assistance officer, I can attest that the military makes a solid effort for the members of the armed forces to exercise their right to vote. It's on the other end where the obstructions occur. Notice that it was the 'absentee' [the military] vote that the Gore Campaign immediately went after to eliminate at the very beginning of their attempted Florida coup. They went into the courts to throw out any envelope not date stamped by the Post Office. Of course anyone who pulls their own mail can look and see how many pre-paid envelopes are without date stamp. This demand also included those that while date stamped as received by the local board of elections still didn't have the USPS mark. It also ignored that the absentee ballot process, which varies by state, often had the requirement of a counter signature by a duly appointed officer to testify as to the authenticity of the voter. [Something that has been lacking for local voters]. |