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| Voting for Europe, Mid-East based US military appear to be down |
| 2004-11-04 |
| Although final tallies will not be counted for three months, voters in the military communities of Europe and the Middle East appear to have voted at lower rates this year than overall overseas military personnel did in 2000. More than 5,000 last-minute ballots were mailed from U.S. post offices in Europe, according to figures released Tuesday by the Air Force, Army and Navy. As of Election Day, 88,788 ballots had been mailed from APO and FPO address in Europe, up 5,250 from Thursday. The Air Force mailed 42,130 ballots, the Army mailed 36,203 and the Navy, 10,455. The eligible pool of military and depending voters in Europe is about 150,000 people, meaning roughly 59 percent of eligible voters mailed back ballots for this year's election. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #4 this overseas vote snafu crap HAS to be resolved. Our military, on our behalf, in harm's way, more than anyone else deserves to vote and have it counted. There's gotta be a better way |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-04 10:20:17 AM |
| #3 That absolutely was a problem in Pennsylvania. Santorum stuck up for the service personnel but Specter couldn't have cared less. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-04 10:20:02 AM |
| #2 Stars and Stripes is a mostly civilian run paper with some military reporters that cover the local bases for military issues. A lot of them take advanced classes at the same civilian media colleges as MSM. Same with civilian leadership at AFRTS, they tend toward the liberal side. I know from personal experience they hated putting Rush on AFRTS, but were pressured into it by the military audience. On the low voting numbers, might not the problem be that they had applied for absentee ballots, but didn't get them in time? |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-11-04 10:09:41 AM |
| #1 This seems to be a late press release from the Kerry Suppress the Vote program. Is Stars and Stripes really an MSM training program? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-04 7:25:52 AM |