Reply #25: I can give you some info on military voting.

[RiDuvessa]

At least at overseas commands that aren't Iraq or Afghanistan.

Each overseas command has a voting assistance officer. That person is there to assist the military member in finding the rules for their particular state. The military member is the one who has to request the absentee ballot from their particular state. The military member is also the one who has to fill out the absentee ballot and send them in.

Every service member must adhere to their particular state's voting regulations. There are not piles of ballots sitting around, nor are there mass sessions where the command hands out ballots and makes the service members sit there and fill them out. Most of the time, the command has no knowledge of whether you voted or not. At least, that is how it has been in every command that I have been to and I have never heard of it happening otherwise.

There were a lot of problems this year with people not getting their ballots on time. Many people had to use the Federal write-in ballots. That is about the only complaint that I heard.

As I said though, I am not in a forward combat area, but this is haw it happens at most regular overseas bases, and CONUS bases as well, because most military members vote absentee.

Hope this info helps.