Voter Disenfranchisement...

Ballots from U.S. troops risk being discarded

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As absentee ballots pour in from U.S. troops overseas, officials are voicing concerns that many of those votes won't be counted.
An absentee ballot from Arlington County in Virginia shows the names of the general election candidates.

"It's dismal," said Rosemary Rodriguez, who works for the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, a non-partisan group. "These are the voters that are in some cases preserving our liberties and out there with their lives on the line."

As a veteran, strike that, even if I wasn't a veteran I would find this offensive in the extreme. Every election the same thing happens. While the Democrats are hard at work making sure crackheads, convicts, and the dead aren't disenfranchised, they are equally just as hard at work making sure the votes of the men and women putting it on the line to ensure the rest of us enjoy our freedoms get tossed out. Why? Simple really. According to polls taken by the Army Times, the military vote is overwhelmingly in the McCain camp.