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TEWSPilot

One would think that after all this time SOMEONE in the Pentagon would have TRIED to solve this problem...or would they? "Don't Ask, Don't Vote, soldier!"...dismissed.

BuffaloJack · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

My personal opinion:
Only military personnel on active duty should have the right to absentee voting. All others, without exception, should be required to show up in person and with ID. It you are too busy to go vote or are on vacation or out of the country business then that's too bad, you don't get to vote.
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zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

baldeagle · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

That's a mite harsh, Jack.
How about their families who are on accompanied tours with them, (like my granddaughter with her Marine Hubby in Iwakuni, Japan)?
Or our Embassy staffs stationed all over the world?
Or DOD civillian employees serving alongside the servicemen in faraway lands like Iraq and Afghanistan?
Or employees of American companies serving in corporate offices overseas?
Or contract employees serving with companies supporting the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan?
& numerous other citizens out of the country for one reason or another who find it financially or otherwise difficult to travel home just long enough to vote?
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zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

You're right, I forgot about those out of the country with legitimate reason. We don't want to abridge their rights either. However, in the case of active duty military, I think that the military and government should bend over backwards to make it easy for service members to vote.
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BuffaloJack · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

You guys are right. Include families and civillians in the service to our country. I'd include and government employee or dependent, and contractors if authorized, but these people who are on vacation or working abroad because they want to, just do without.
If a few people are inconvenienced then that is the price for wiping out voter fraud; they can vote in the very next election where ther can make it in to the polling place.
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TEWSPilot · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:14 am Post subject:

If you remember, Clinton ordered several units in Florida to deploy on training exercises AFTER the time they could have voted absentee but BEFORE they could go to the polls and vote early in person, and you remember the legion of lawyers the Democrats sent to make sure their votes didn't get counted. They also made it virtually impossible for them to get to polls, and even ships on the seas that collected votes and tried to fly them ashore to be counted were prohibited. I prefer to give the military extra breaks, not take them away. It's not easy for active duty military to get to the polls even stateside. If ACORN can bus drunks and dopeheads and homeless to the polls, we can make reasonable accommodations for our military.
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