Questions about Moore's facts.

aimeecc · 01-09-2008, 12:31 PM

Just to bring up a dead issue...
If all absentee ballots in all states that were date stamped by the deadline were counted... Bush most likely would have won the popular vote. States don't count the absentee ballots unless the margin between the candidates is smaller than the number of absentee ballots received. Otherwise its viewed as a waste of time and effort to count them. One prime example - Texas. Texas did not count absentee ballots (they didn't need to). A large percentage of the military is... guess what... from Texas and Republican. Also, the whole date stamp issue... military members can't control the postal system. It doesn't get stamped until it reaches our golden shores... so some poor soldier stuck in Iraq or Afghanistan or Korea did his civic duty by filling out the ballot in a timely manner, put it in the mail... only to have it sit on some loading dock or some warehouse for weeks. Its not like the military heard Bush was loosing on the day of the election and they all ran out and grabbed an absentee ballot and put it in the mail. Also, you have to request an absentee ballot weeks in advance. So even to just receive the absentee ballot means you already went through the effort of requesting one, and are thus intending to vote. People that don't intend to vote don't waste their time to request an absentee ballot. It took several phones call for me from Japan to Texas in 2004 to get my absentee ballot because I hadn't voted in 4 years (no surprise there) so they had dropped me from the roles. I had to dig up an old voter registration card (very fortunate I keep all records) and fax it to them so they could look in the archives for my records.
Also, its not only military overseas that use absentee ballots. Service members stationed in North Carolina but registered in California use absentee ballots. Heck, your cousin Sue from Timbucktoo can use an absentee ballot because she can't get away from the kids to vote, and Uncle Ed can use and absentee ballot because he'll be traveling outside the state on election day.

TheMercenary · 01-09-2008, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aimeecc

A large percentage of the military is... guess what... from Texas and Republican.

That is a false statement, everything after that is really nul and void.

01-09-2008, 12:31 PM	#1
aimeecc Super Intendent Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 249	Just to bring up a dead issue... If all absentee ballots in all states that were date stamped by the deadline were counted... Bush most likely would have won the popular vote. States don't count the absentee ballots unless the margin between the candidates is smaller than the number of absentee ballots received. Otherwise its viewed as a waste of time and effort to count them. One prime example - Texas. Texas did not count absentee ballots (they didn't need to). A large percentage of the military is... guess what... from Texas and Republican. Also, the whole date stamp issue... military members can't control the postal system. It doesn't get stamped until it reaches our golden shores... so some poor soldier stuck in Iraq or Afghanistan or Korea did his civic duty by filling out the ballot in a timely manner, put it in the mail... only to have it sit on some loading dock or some warehouse for weeks. Its not like the military heard Bush was loosing on the day of the election and they all ran out and grabbed an absentee ballot and put it in the mail. Also, you have to request an absentee ballot weeks in advance. So even to just receive the absentee ballot means you already went through the effort of requesting one, and are thus intending to vote. People that don't intend to vote don't waste their time to request an absentee ballot. It took several phones call for me from Japan to Texas in 2004 to get my absentee ballot because I hadn't voted in 4 years (no surprise there) so they had dropped me from the roles. I had to dig up an old voter registration card (very fortunate I keep all records) and fax it to them so they could look in the archives for my records. Also, its not only military overseas that use absentee ballots. Service members stationed in North Carolina but registered in California use absentee ballots. Heck, your cousin Sue from Timbucktoo can use an absentee ballot because she can't get away from the kids to vote, and Uncle Ed can use and absentee ballot because he'll be traveling outside the state on election day.

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