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As if being sent into a combat zone wasn’t bad enough.
Less than 48% of the votes submitted for last years congressional election were counted. Even more astounding is that only 28% of Americans overseas actually received the voting material that they requested!
Here are the numbers from last year:
The figures, released at the commission’s annual conference on ways to improve and troubleshoot the absentee voting process, showed that only about 992,000 of the nearly 6 million eligible overseas citizens requested ballots for the 2006 general election.
That included about 119,000 military personnel stationed outside the United States. Of those, only about 57,000 — less than 48 percent — had their votes successfully cast or counted.
In the scheme of political elections, these votes are absolutely minuscule. The 2004 Presidential election saw 122 .3 MILLION votes.
But when troops are involved, even one missed count is a tragedy. The irony of troops fighting (theoretically) for their freedom to vote and then have it ignored is much more bureaucratic douchebagery than my stomach can handle.
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