Study: 28 percent of deployed troop votes not counted

May 14, 2009, 6:18 a.m. RICK MAZE Military Times A study released Wednesday says that 28 percent of deployed service members were unable to vote in the November elections because their absentee ballots were uncounted or never collected.

[Mad Dog USN]

Why is this a shock? It happens every election
unless it's crucial to a vote...

The press and the politicians only haul out the troops when it's beneficial to their aims..

[Danny_Livewire]

Right.... like they ever REALLY count votes to begin with.....

[stella007]

Yep, it happened in 2004 too.
We are still waiting for Coleman/Franken to wrap up...

[Lance Winslow]

Ironic that the folks laying their lives on the line for democracy can't participate in their own elections.

[Don Joe]

Let's just toss them all in a big old Diebold machine and call up GOP headquarters and ask who won.

[WeTheSheeple]

That's no worse than any other type of absentee ballot. They're never counted anyways unless the margin of difference is less than the total number of absentee ballots collected.

[thebabbster]

Well, obviously this means that McCain/Palin won the election and Barack Obama can be tried for treason for having the unbridled gall to be a Democrat. -NOT-

[oneTon]

Day late and a dollar short. Everything just drags onnnnn before its ever know about. Just like acorn,pelosi,loan scandals,on and on. Where the hell is the justice department? Govt.'s like this dog chasing its tail. Nothing gets accomplished. Just another monkey wrench that will go nowhere have no results and burn up time.

[Mad Dog USN]

thebabbster wrote:

Well, obviously this means that McCain/Palin won the election and Barack Obama can be tried for treason for having the unbridled gall to be a Democrat.-NOT-

God if that happened it would be wonderful.
Liberals would have a new source to bitch about...
Elections been over for awhile I guess the well is running dry on fresh repub things to bitch about huh??

[WeTheSheeple]

Mad Dog USN wrote:

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God if that happened it would be wonderful.
Liberals would have a new source to bitch about...
Elections been over for awhile I guess the well is running dry on fresh repub things to bitch about huh??

No worry, the Repubes give us new material to make fun of them each & every day. Cheney is the best thing that could have ever happened to the Dems; they need to put him on tv 24 hrs a day!

[Mad Dog USN]

WeTheSheeple wrote:

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No worry, the Repubes give us new material to make fun of them each & every day. Cheney is the best thing that could have ever happened to the Dems; they need to put him on tv 24 hrs a day!

You want laughs take away Obama's practices "press conference's" or should I saying "press fawning sessions" and his telepromter and then tell me about humor...

Betcha he would make Pelosi's CIA press confernce
seem intelligent..

You want another laugh Barney Fwank wants the rest of us to bail out California...You up for that??
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-petruno...

[WeTheSheeple]

How many more seats will the Repubes lose in congress come 2010? I predict at least another 4 seats in the Senate will go to the Dems, plus a few dozen in the House. The more Cheney is out there, the more people are fleeing the Repube party.

Maybe Cheney & Palin will team up to run in 2012!

[Mad Dog USN]

WeTheSheeple wrote:

How many more seats will the Repubes lose in congress come 2010? I predict at least another 4 seats in the Senate will go to the Dems, plus a few dozen in the House. The more Cheney is out there, the more people are fleeing the Repube party.
Maybe Cheney & Palin will team up to run in 2012!

Depends on how many phony voter's ACORN can come up with...

Depends on how many people want the president to:
Fill my gas tank
Pay my mortgage because I live beyond my means
Give me free healthcare at the cost of someone else.
Buy me a car....

[WeTheSheeple]

Mad Dog USN wrote:

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Depends on how many phony voter's ACORN can come up with...
Depends on how many people want the president to:
Fill my gas tank
Pay my mortgage because I live beyond my means
Give me free healthcare at the cost of someone else.
Buy me a car....

I don't care because the Repubes will just keep on losing!!!!!!!!!!

[Mad Dog USN]

WeTheSheeple wrote:

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I don't care because the Repubes will just keep on losing!!!!!!!!!!

And at the rate we're going we will keep losing with them.....Enjoy the ride..

[thebabbster]

Mad Dog USN wrote:

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God if that happened it would be wonderful.
Liberals would have a new source to bitch about...
Elections been over for awhile I guess the well is running dry on fresh repub things to bitch about huh??

The thing that the more extreme elements in the GOP isn't considering is that now the bar has been set even higher regarding protesting a sitting president. It has now become acceptable to question a president's legitimacy based on just about anything and to even threaten a coup if certain things don't happen. So, when the GOP is back in office, as it will eventually be, it will have to deal with new, even sharper rhetoric that they themselves set the precedent for. Ironic, huh?

[thebabbster]

WeTheSheeple wrote:

How many more seats will the Repubes lose in congress come 2010? I predict at least another 4 seats in the Senate will go to the Dems, plus a few dozen in the House. The more Cheney is out there, the more people are fleeing the Repube party.
Maybe Cheney & Palin will team up to run in 2012!

How about Palin and Miss California! Because Gawd knows that being hot means you can run a government, too!
Seriously, people are casting dirt on the GOP grave, that is a mistake. If the Democrats overreach, they are in danger of losing power. However, if the Really Right continues to use incindiary (sp?) rhetoric then they probably won't be elected back into power for some time.

[Mad Dog USN]

thebabbster wrote:

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The thing that the more extreme elements in the GOP isn't considering is that now the bar has been set even higher regarding protesting a sitting president. It has now become acceptable to question a president's legitimacy based on just about anything and to even threaten a coup if certain things don't happen. So, when the GOP is back in office, as it will eventually be, it will have to deal with new, even sharper rhetoric that they themselves set the precedent for. Ironic, huh?

And the DNC has the same problem..

Joe the plumber asked a simple question which Obama answered, but he DNC decided that wasn't enough and tore into his personal and financial history. Obama even haad to establish an anti-smear website...but the DNC didn't have a problem continuing to smear the GOP..

Sarah Palin: The DNC couldn't find anything on her immediately so they investigated her family
and relations.

They chastised her for her clothes the very same thing Michelle Obama is doing now.$540 dollar shoes to a charity event??

The DNC promised bi-partisianship but every time a bill fails the first time up Pelosi and Reid and Obama want to blame the GOP specifically despite the fact that they have the majority..

Every time an issues comes up on topix every liberal with half a mind and a keyboard decides to recount history and find someway to blame someone else..

It's enough, your average voter is tired. Tired of either party. Neither of which is concerned about the US taxpayer or their voting constituents. So while we moan, blame, and complain Congress runs the country into the ground and minority and fringe group dig their teeth in for more power grabs..

[Mad Dog USN]

Can't rebutt it so you judge it...

[thebabbster]

Mad Dog USN wrote:

Can't rebutt it so you judge it...

That wasn't me.
Joe the Plumber thought he was going to have his "gotcha" moment on national television. Wasn't a simple question, he was trying to one-up a presidential candidate.
Sarah Palin thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old: I have no problem with the media crucifying her.
Back to my point: since it's ok for the Right to talk openly of "taking the country back", and beating Liberals to death with baseball bats, it is now ok for the Left to do it, too. We are on the brink of violence, and that is just what Sean Hannity, Anne Coulter and their fans want. Now it's out in the open. Now it's acceptable.