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To: LindyBill who wrote (521023)11/9/2012 7:11:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793964
 
How many soldiers do we have stationed overseas, altogether?



To: LindyBill who wrote (521023)11/9/2012 3:01:15 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793964
 
LB, you're right....American Thinker thought it was true too....Here's the update: Did mishandling of the military ballots cost Romney the election? (update: a hoax) Clarice Feldman

November 9, 2012

We have been hoaxed! This is not a serious report. American Thinker apologizes to readers.

Duffleblog says that the tardy delivery of the ballots caused them to be returned too late to be counted but these hundreds of thousands of ballots seem preliminarily to have been enough to hand Romney the election.

Sources confirmed today that hundreds of thousands of military absentee ballots were delivered hours after the deadline for them to be counted, with preliminary counts showing that they would have overturned the vote in several states and brought a victory for Governor Mitt Romney.

Officials say the ballots were delivered late due to problems within the military mail system. Tracking invoices show the ballots sat in a warehouse for a month, then they were accidentally labeled as ammunition and shipped to Afghanistan. At Camp Dwyer, Marine Sergeant John Davis signed for them and was surprised at the contents. (snip)

Twelve boxes of ballots were dropped overboard during delivery to the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) in the Persian Gulf, then while the ship sailed to Bahrain, postal clerks allegedly pocketed whatever ballots they wanted.

The remaining absentee ballots were loaded onto a C-130, but the flight was delayed until November 1st so the crew could get tax free pay for the month. Once the ballots arrived stateside they were promptly mailed to each state's counting facility, reaching their final destination on November 7th.



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