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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D. Long who wrote (109975)	12/11/2000 7:35:38 AM
From: ecommerceman	Respond to of 769670

DLong--how about military ballots which weren't witnessed properly, or had other defects in them (the postmark issue is the easy one).... _____________ On the question of military ballots, yes. For one reason. As I understand it from my friends who were in the military and my father, military mail often doesnt HAVE a postmark. Same with overseas embassadorial mail which is shipped in diplomatic pouches. Quite simply, this mail would not have postmark. This is an issue of equal protection, not statutory compliance. There is a difference between exclusion of absentee ballots because of a US military convention concerning overseas active duty personnels' mail, and recounts not getting done in time for a deadline. For the deadlines, the rules are set and known by all, and apply equally and uniformly to everyone. If the ballots arent in, they arent counted. But in the case of absentee ballots without postmark, there is a case of the ballots being rejected due to a pre-existing condition that applies to an entire class of ballots - military and diplomatic, that makes any statute that rejects them descriminatory and exclusionary - ie against the law. That is my understanding of it, at least.