Pentagon Moves to Improve Troubled Military Voting

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stung by voting problems four years ago, the Pentagon (news - web sites) announced on Friday it was pressing to improve absentee balloting by the U.S. military and civilians overseas in what could be a close 2004 presidential election.

Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Charles Abell said he expected even greater military participation in the Nov. 2 election than in 2000 based on cooperation with states and efforts ranging from new postmarks on ballots to announcements at base movie theaters.
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"We are pushing awareness in every way that we can imagine," he told reporters. "We have got banners and handouts in the commissaries and the exchanges" where troops and their families shop for goods and groceries.

The Pentagon is responsible for spreading information on absentee voting to about 6 million Americans. This includes 3.8 million U.S. civilian voters overseas, most of whom are not affiliated with the military, as well as the military and their families in the United States and 492,000 troops abroad -- many of whom are in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040806/us_nm/campaign_military_dc

[unfrigginreal]

1. Thank goodness!

It's great to see the Government take such intiatives with states to boost voter participation. I'll bet that they're going to put up banners and handouts at all of the unemployment offices in America too. Bravo.

[daa]

2. I seriously doubt

that shrub wants to count many votes of reservists and guardsmen in Iraq.