US military cast ballots by mail, fax and email

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US troops overseas have voted by mail, fax and even email in the US presidential election, acting on their private judgments about who should lead them in a time of war.


Pentagon (news - web sites) and military spokespersons said they do not keep tallies of how many absentee ballots have been requested by US military personnel overseas or how many have been returned through the military postal system.


But Stars and Stripes, a Pentagon-funded newspaper for military servicemembers, reported over the weekend that about a quarter of the estimated 200,000 US military and civilians deployed to the US Central Command's area of operations, which includes Iraq (news - web sites) and Kuwait, have returned their ballots.


Lieutenant Colonel Korya James, the Kuwait-based Coalition Land Forces Component Command's voting assistance officer, told the newspaper that 60,165 absentee ballots were requested, and 48,935 have been returned as of late last week.

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for at least a couple of weeks, govt. paid.

I faxed my ballot in to vote against Arnie a few months ago. I don't think my state allows e-mailed ballots. I guess some states do.

is authentic? California courts allow some fax filing, but the party filing the document has to be able to produce the original on demand. How does fax voting work?

because I think that the military is not as supportive of shrubby as he would like us to believe.