UN - FREAKING - BELIEVABLE
Election officials concede that tens of thousands of Americans overseas might not get ballots in time to cast votes. Late primaries and legal wrangling caused election offices in at least 8 of the 15 swing states to fail to mail absentee ballots by Sept. 19, a cutoff date officials say is necessary to ensure that they can be returned on time, a survey by The New York Times shows.
more below the belt:
Do you think this is cherry picking voters:
To help speed the balloting process, federal officials activated a new system last week in which voters can obtain absentee ballots instantly through the Internet. But the Web site, myballot.mil, will be offered only to members of the military and their families, quickly raising concerns about fairness in a program that the Pentagon has been directed to run for civilians as well.
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After blocking Internet systems in more than two dozen countries from gaining access to the general Web site, the Pentagon retreated last week and says it is trying to find a less encumbering way to protect against hackers.
Two weeks ago, Americans in various countries complained to voting rights groups that they received only ringing or busy signals when they tried to fax voter registrations to the number provided by the Pentagon.
To put this into persective: There are over 500 absentee overseas voters from FLORIDA in the UK alone...this could swing most of the swing states and these votes are varifiable. Overseas voters have registered in record numbers this year and thirty new countires applied for membership in Democrats Abroad and it is not because Bush has made Americans feel comfortable living abroad.
I can not post the whole article but I highly recommend that everyone reads it.
