The Pentagon Fails to Send Absentee Ballots
to Active Military Service Members
Townhall,
by
Sarah Arnold
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/2/2024 7:17:14 PM
Republican lawmakers demand answers from the Pentagon after military service members complained that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day. GOP Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Mike Waltz (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin citing their “grave concern over deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols” for the U.S. military because they said the absentee ballot stockpile has been “depleted and had not been replenished.”
“Our nation’s brave men and women in uniform brought to our attention that there has been inadequate education at the administrative level
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 11/2/2024 7:29:18 PM (No. 1824911)
Lloyd Affirmative Action doing his massa's bidding.
81 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
JonR 11/2/2024 7:32:24 PM (No. 1824915)
Without a doubt, totally intentional!
98 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
daisey 11/2/2024 7:35:28 PM (No. 1824916)
Thanks to the very woke Christoper Q. Brown. And Lloyd Austin. They’ve only had 4 years to prepare. Dear Lord I despise these people. Denying those who serve our country their right to vote for a commander in chief.
98 people like this.
Democrats stole them. Simple.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 11/2/2024 7:36:13 PM (No. 1824918)
The GOP will have something to say about this in
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Catherine 11/2/2024 7:38:58 PM (No. 1824920)
They don't count them anyway. Part of the reason Obama was 'elected.'
51 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/2/2024 7:54:19 PM (No. 1824923)
It is not Rocket surgery, Every single unit commander and base commander knows EXACTLY how many people are in his areo of operations at any time, and for weeks if not months in advance, have a Ballot there for every single one plus spares. I garuntee someone from the Biden Harris administration was tasked to oversee that every single unit has plenty of Tampons, Plan B, and trained facilitators for sex changes. Lack of Ballots and access is INTENTIONAL.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 11/2/2024 8:06:23 PM (No. 1824930)
Imagine that. Lloyd Austin and Q Brown failing to get their conservative Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines the ballots they need to vote Austin and Brown out of office.
53 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 11/2/2024 8:29:50 PM (No. 1824937)
Disgusting
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/2/2024 8:47:13 PM (No. 1824941)
Why would the leftist and progressive Democrat controlled Pentagon facilitate members of the US military to vote for Trump? As you can be sure that after Trump stood up and stated “fight, fight, fight” at Butler, PA after a perpetrator shot him in the side of his head in an effort to assassinate (murder) him that the true warriors in the armed forces would be voting for Trump! So if the deployed military members have no ballots they can’t vote, and you can be sure that the Democrats will be happy about that. What more do you need to know?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
paral04 11/2/2024 9:05:41 PM (No. 1824945)
That is reprehensible. The head of that department that is supposed to handle this needs to be fired.
25 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/2/2024 9:53:04 PM (No. 1824964)
I was on active duty for 10 years and managed to get an absentee ballot from my home state in every election cycle. And this was before the internet. Soooooooo while this is bad, the "voters" could have been proactive months ago.
17 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 11/2/2024 11:23:12 PM (No. 1824995)
NOT an accident.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 11/2/2024 11:55:16 PM (No. 1825001)
Damnable outrage. The ones whose lives are always on the line, and they government bureaucracy can't (won't) get the ballots out in good time? Who is watching the watchers? Was there no GOP rep on top of this? disgusting
13 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
TXknitter 11/3/2024 1:28:09 AM (No. 1825027)
Every four years we go through this, folks. During Obama, this happened quite a lot and nothing is ever done about it.
17 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 11/3/2024 4:12:12 AM (No. 1825061)
Getting tired of reading about voter suppression by the Dems. It seems to be everywhere.
All the generals at the top of the military food chain know that their career is over if Trump wins.
21 people like this.
Uh oh! I see another shiny four color cover REPORT on the horizon. 🙄
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 11/3/2024 7:57:26 AM (No. 1825176)
Let's fire all the Political Generals. They are not worth a cup of hot p*ss among them. Start over. I try not to hate, but this group makes it difficult.
If you think this is an accident, you are definitely a Democrat.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
raspberry 11/3/2024 7:58:58 AM (No. 1825178)
If they cannot deliver ballots, can they deliver munitions?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/3/2024 9:17:31 AM (No. 1825221)
Now THERE'S an insurrection worth of the name!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/3/2024 9:17:46 AM (No. 1825222)
As planned by the Leftist Cabal at the 5 sided hell hole in Washington DC!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kafka2 11/3/2024 10:14:16 AM (No. 1825279)
When you consider that members of the military put their lives on the line to protect our country, this is the last group of citizens that should be denied their right to vote. The fact attempts to allow illegals to vote concurrent to the denial of military personnel’s right to vote is truly deplorable.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
FLCracker 11/3/2024 10:15:20 AM (No. 1825281)
This is nothing new for the military.
There are two problems, the US Postal Service and then the various services distribution once USPS delivers to the military side. For absentee voting, you have the problem of actually getting the absentee ballot and then it sending back to its polling state.
This has been a problem at least since 1971, when I became aware of it, and it hasn't gotten better. It seems that since e-mail has take the place of a lot of military distribution, the idea of delivery of physical mail has fallen to the wayside.
Ask the Viet Nam vets if they ever managed to vote absentee.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/3/2024 10:24:26 AM (No. 1825286)
Nice job, Idi.
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
smak90 11/3/2024 10:33:02 AM (No. 1825292)
Criminal. You can count on those ballots being intercepted with votes for Democrats turned in
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Miss T 11/3/2024 11:20:55 AM (No. 1825306)
#23 articulated my observations. This has been going on at least since the '70s, no doubt even earlier than that.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/3/2024 12:03:49 PM (No. 1825325)
The Military has forever failed in its obligation, yea duty, to not only send those absentee ballots, but to process them for the troops. They are evil.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 11/3/2024 12:06:16 PM (No. 1825328)
Who’s kidding who here. They didn’t fail to send them. They were ordered to not send them.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Mushroom 11/3/2024 12:22:21 PM (No. 1825336)
In my entire terms of enlistment I never once was able to vote.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
govlawyer 11/3/2024 2:08:31 PM (No. 1825378)
Man, the payback list if Trump wins on Tuesday is going to be long and infamous, and growing...I can't wait to hear the squealing on January 20 when his first act will be to revoke 51 security clearances.
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/3/2024 2:36:54 PM (No. 1825386)
Only one way to achieve a Harris victory
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