On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:30:01 GMT, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote:


"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:51:58 GMT, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote:


People are right to be troubled about voters being stripped of their
vote for no valid reason. Our votes are how we, the people, direct
our republic and taking away that right threatens the stability of the
republic.

You mean kind of like Gore and the democrats ranting about the validity
of
the absentee ballots sent back from the overseas military personnel?

No, I don't.

Glad we cleared that up--stripping the vote from those likely to be dems is
apparently a travesty, while doing the same to those who serve overseas is
A-OK, huh?

If the rules say your absentee vote has to be postmarked before a
given date, it's not stripping your vote from you if you don't get it
done in time. The same is true for folks serving in the US as well,
by the way, just like it is for civilians voting absentee.

Come to think of it, how could they tell the ballots were from
overseas military, not civilians overseas or folks stationed outside
Florida but within the US?

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer