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ELECTION 2000
Military missing absentee ballots
Some Army, Navy personnel unable to vote for new commander in chief
By Jon E. Dougherty
� 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
Members of the military who are currently stationed overseas have
complained that the Pentagon has not yet sent out absentee
ballots this year, meaning they will not get to vote for a new
commander in chief on Tuesday.
Specifically, members of U.S. Navy units who are stationed
overseas and aboard the USS Cole -- the destroyer recently
attacked by terrorists while it was undergoing refueling in the
port of Aden, Yemen -- have either not received ballots or won't
get them in time because of current deployment circumstances,
Pentagon officials said yesterday.
"I've heard about this within the past week," said Lt. Dave Guy,
a spokesman for the Army. "We are trying to get more
information. We don't know if they were delayed through the
mail."
He added that due to current deployment considerations, some
military members overseas likely would not get their ballots in
time.
"The support team for the USS Cole may not get their ballots due
to intermittent mail," Guy said. "Some ballots could very well
be delayed for a number of reasons."
A Maine resident -- who asked not to be identified -- said her
Navy daughter who is stationed in Tokyo has received her absentee
ballot for every election except this one.
"No one at the base will be voting because all the absentee
ballots are missing," she told WorldNetDaily.
Navy officials were also contacted but did not return phone
calls.
Critics have suggested that the Clinton administration may have
purposely delayed sending absentee ballots to military personnel
overseas because most, according to recent surveys, will vote
Republican. The White House has denied those charges.
According to Guy, officials with the Federal Voting Assistance
Program -- which helps manage balloting for overseas service
members -- "was not aware of any group non-delivery."
Guy said depending on the home state of the member, ballots can
be sent via Standard Form 136, which is a write-in ballot.
States have different deadlines for such ballots, he added.
Each ballot "is unit specific and handled individually," he said.
Guy noted that "the military has a much higher participation [of
overall voters] in the voting process" than does the general
voting public. In the 1996 election, he said 64 percent of
service members participated; 40 percent of those were absentee
ballots. Twelve percent could not vote for various reasons,
including because ballots were either sent late or otherwise not
received on time.
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