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| Absentee military ballots may have been destroyed in crash |
| 2012-10-27 |
| 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. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 It's actually the APO located in NYC. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-10-27 16:49 |
| #5 It was the destination zip code 09382, Shindand, Farah, and Camp Stone (also known as Herat). |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-10-27 16:35 |
| #4 May as well burn them, the Dems lawyers would have had them thrown out anyway. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2012-10-27 09:05 |
| #3 Unexpectedly. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-10-27 08:13 |
| #2 "They also said the lost mail was limited to one zip code." Is this 'one zip code' a California zip code, or a Texas zip code or |
| Posted by: Omomotle Turkeyneck4727 2012-10-27 07:36 |
| #1 Yeah, a plane crash. They couldn't say a dog ate the absentee ballots. Who'd believe that? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-10-27 00:57 |