A study has found that up to 25 percent of overseas ballots, most of them military, were not counted in 2008. It’s no surprise that military ballots are undercounted. Anyone who remembers what happened in 2000 and 2004 knows it’s par for the course for military ballots, which trend heavily Republican, to find their way into File 13. Lots of obstacles are thrown in the way of military men an women who want to cast an absentee ballot, obstacles that no other group must face, like getting their ballot notarized. Ace of Spades has some cogent comments about that:
What is this crap about getting ballots notarized? Now, I understand the need for ballot security and all that — but it seems very strange to me that these restrictions are placed on Republican-trending military voters, when, back in the US, they won’t even ask for your identification when you vote.
What possible rationale can explain this? The military has the hardest time of any citizens voting, so we impose on them the biggest obstacles to exercising that vote? While back in the States ACORN can sign up Mickey Mouse, students can illegally move into a swing state for two weeks and declare themselves “residents” without any checking or any jail-time when caught, and thousands upon thousands of votes are cast by illegal aliens and the dead, because Democrats claim that any measures taken to clean up the voter rolls or ask for proof of identity constitute a “chilling” effect on the right to vote.
But military guys, often serving in hot wars? These guys, we need to be careful with. Who knows — there could be all sorts of fraudulent voting going on.
The guy’s got a point.
