Comments on: Disenfranchised

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:40:36 +0000

A better thought is Jerry Pournelle’s oft stated “beware the wrath of the Legions.”

By: Cas

Cas — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:50 +0000

Probably the only way to provide the deployed troops the ability to vote is via secure web-based voting.

I can already think of several problem areas that would need to be worked out (voter identification, secure access, bandwidth issues from remote theater of operations).

But are these issues any WORSE than denying voting rights of servicememebers altogether? How about some of the questionable validity that organizations like ACORN inject into the electorial process?

By: Danger

Danger — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:54:55 +0000

While in Afghanistan it took somewhere between 15 and 20 days for me to get mail from the US. No express mail delivery is available there. Mail headed back home took even longer: about 20-25 days. I mailed a few boxes home before I left, then went through warrior transition, then got delayed several days on the flight back home. Got home, settled in and THEN, a few weeks later, my boxes arrived. No one’s fault; it’s a war zone! There is almost no way to insure this process will be inclusive of those pressed forward to defend and support. The lack of a military vote is only a harm to the Republicans, and they [Democrats] know it!

By: Rhinowso

Rhinowso — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:39:04 +0000

That is an understatement… and mail at the beginning or end of a deployment just never seems to make it… or take 2-3 times as long…

By: babs

babs — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:29:14 +0000

Based on my son’s last deployment I would say that 30 days isn’t even enough.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:13:29 +0000

Grey Goat/

“he won’t answer a simple question.”

Like you really expect(ed) him to?