nebula Posted August 25, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted August 25, 2010 10 States Seek Waiver to Comply With Military Voting Law's Absentee Ballot Rules Published August 25, 2010 | FoxNews.com Armed insurgents provide quite enough for our fighting men and women overseas to worry about but this fall's jam-packed election calendar is also ambushing them. Ten states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands are all seeking waivers exempting them from complying with the new law -- the Move Act -- that requires all states to mail absentee ballots to overseas military voters 45 days before Election Day. "The waiver process is kind of recognition, probably, that 2010 was going to be a transition year, that some states would have to do things like move their electoral calendar, which is not easy," said Chip Levengood of the Overseas Vote Foundation. Read the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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