Thousands of military absentee ballots are being lost

[Lovebears65]

Thousands of military absentee ballots are being lost Independent Journal Review This is just wrong in so many ways

 

[Inthemiddle]

Enough with the IJ. It's no better than citing Rush Limbaugh as a source.

 

[Oddball]

You don't expect HuffyPuffy or AlterNut to run such a story, do you?

 

[Inthemiddle]

Alternet is just another blog-rag too. Huffington Post is at least a legitimate news outlet.

 

[g5000]

Thousands of military absentee ballots are being lost Independent Journal Review This is just wrong in so many ways

Some horrible logic, misrepresentation, and math in that article.

Just sayin'.

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[Oddball]

Alternet is just another blog-rag too. Huffington Post is at least a legitimate news outlet.

BWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[g5000]

Okay, fine, I'll explain.

First, there are not any ballots being lost. There is a dearth of absentee ballot requests. So the headline is false, for starters.

Second:

With only 1,746 military voters in Virginia requesting absentee ballots so far this year — out of 126,251 service members in the state —the Military Voter Protection Project says the system has broken down.

It sounds like there has been a massive mishandling of paperwork for voters in the military. Just the fact that there are 124, 505 fewer absentee ballots requests in the system suggests that something has gone terribly wrong. How does one lose voting paperwork from over 120,000 members of the armed forces? That’s a good question.

Uh, dipshit. You are assuming all 126,251 Viriginians serving in the miltary requested ballots and that 124,505 of those requests got lost.

How did you get to be so stupid? That's a good question.


Finally:

Compiling data from Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, Colorado and Nevada, Eversole’s organization found that military families have requested 55,510 absentee ballots so far this year. That’s a sharp decline from the 166,252 sought in those states in 2008.

They have one third the requests they had four years ago. That is certainly notable, but not surprising.

But 2008 was the exception, not 2012.

The enthusiasm in this election is quite a bit lower than it was in 2008. Everyone was "Fired UP and Ready to GO!" back then. Remember?

Not so much today.

Obama has been a huge disappointment for his supporters, and Romney is a bumbling idiot. There is no love. No spark.

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[AmyNation]

Okay, fine, I'll explain.

First, there are not any ballots being lost. There is a dearth of absentee ballot requests. So the headline is false, for starters.

Second:

With only 1,746 military voters in Virginia requesting absentee ballots so far this year — out of 126,251 service members in the state —the Military Voter Protection Project says the system has broken down.

It sounds like there has been a massive mishandling of paperwork for voters in the military. Just the fact that there are 124, 505 fewer absentee ballots requests in the system suggests that something has gone terribly wrong. How does one lose voting paperwork from over 120,000 members of the armed forces? That’s a good question.

Uh, dipshit. You are assuming all 126,251 Viriginians serving in the miltary requested ballots and that 124,505 of those requests got lost.

How did you get to be so stupid? That's a good question.


Finally:

Compiling data from Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, Colorado and Nevada, Eversole’s organization found that military families have requested 55,510 absentee ballots so far this year. That’s a sharp decline from the 166,252 sought in those states in 2008.

They have one third the requests they had four years ago. That is certainly notable, but not surprising.

But 2008 was the exception, not 2012.

The enthusiasm in this election is quite a bit lower than it was in 2008. Everyone was "Fired UP and Ready to GO!" back then. Remember?

Not so much today.

Obama has been a huge disappointment for his supporters, and Romney is a bumbling idiot. There is no love. No spark.

.

You're ruining her thread by inserting logic.

 

[Inthemiddle]

They have one third the requests they had four years ago. That is certainly notable, but not surprising.

But 2008 was the exception, not 2012.

The enthusiasm in this election is quite a bit lower than it was in 2008. Everyone was "Fired UP and Ready to GO!" back then. Remember?

Not so much today.

Obama has been a huge disappointment for his supporters, and Romney is a bumbling idiot. There is no love. No spark.

Not to mention, in 2008 there were alot more military personnel overseas at the time. Now that we've brought a good many of our people home, there will naturally be a lesser need for absentee ballots.

 

[hazlnut]

Thousands of military absentee ballots are being lost Independent Journal Review This is just wrong in so many ways

 

[Dot Com]

ANOTHER cravenly partisan thread from Lovebears65? It must be either Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday

 

[g5000]

They have one third the requests they had four years ago. That is certainly notable, but not surprising.

But 2008 was the exception, not 2012.

The enthusiasm in this election is quite a bit lower than it was in 2008. Everyone was "Fired UP and Ready to GO!" back then. Remember?

Not so much today.

Obama has been a huge disappointment for his supporters, and Romney is a bumbling idiot. There is no love. No spark.

Not to mention, in 2008 there were alot more military personnel overseas at the time. Now that we've brought a good many of our people home, there will naturally be a lesser need for absentee ballots.

Excellent point! Our troop strength in Iraq is greatly reduced from 2008.

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