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2010 out of 2 million military and overseas absentee votes cast only 4.5% counted and is expected to be a lower % in this election.
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[quote:Bluebird:MV8yMDI5NjUwXzM0MTI0OTU3XzZEOTVCMDEz] And then there is this: Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash. A top official in the Federal Voting Assistance Program this week notified election officials across the nation that a transport plane crashed at Shindad Air Base on Oct. 19. The crash resulted in the destruction of 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to troops serving in the area. Federal officials in their email to state election offices said they did not know if any ballots were destroyed. They also said the lost mail was limited to one zip code. But they recommended that election officials resend a new ballot to anyone who requested one since the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire. http://news.yahoo.com/absentee-ballots-may-destroyed-crash-210240583--election.html [/quote]
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The talking heads in Washington preach and preach how we have to make sure every vote is counted and use BS arguments such as having to show an ID to vote is wrong.
But when it comes to real issues that really affect millions of voters they turn their backs and walk away.
Article: The project, which tracks military votes, found in
2010 that only 4.5 percent of the 2 million military and overseas voters reported to the Election Assistance Commission were able to cast absentee ballots that were actually counted.
Meanwhile, the overall national voter participation rate for the 2010 election was 41.6 percent.
Eversole said the problem exists because state election officials have difficulty keeping track of military voters because they are frequently deployed or move from base to base. That means that ballots are often sent to the wrong addresses, lost in the mail, or arrive at state election offices too late to be counted.
The problem is worse in presidential elections years when more people vote.
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