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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (92861)	12/30/2004 3:53:06 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793759

Alan...Is there any way to tell what other Counties in States in the US used as a date to send the ballots out to the Military....3 weeks that King County allowed seems to be a VERY short amount of time. Especially when the Government said to send packages to the Military by Nov 1st so they would be delivered before Christmas. Is 3 weeks ahead of time the proper time to send Military ballots out and expect to receive them back? >>>>>>>>>>> Largely untouched in all of this is whether any problems with military or overseas ballots played a role in the gubernatorial election. It's an interesting question. Ballots were mailed to 31,910 registered Washington voters living overseas, many of them in the military. Officials couldn't say yesterday how many of those ballots have been returned. King County is crunching those numbers. But just 129 votes separate Gregoire from Rossi, so a fraction of bungled ballots could make a difference. The Secretary of State's Office tells me it hasn't received even a trickle of complaints. Ballots were mailed out in time -- by Oct. 8, more than three weeks before the election. Delays or snafus could have occurred once the ballots hit the postal network or entered the military mail-handling system, conceded Pamela Floyd, assistant elections director for voter services. She said military and overseas ballots are not subject to usual postmark rules; the ballots, provided they were signed and dated by Nov. 2, just had to arrive in a county elections office by Nov. 16, the day before certification. <<<<<<< soundpolitics.com