Why is the press so silent on how the military voted??

[SoCalDem]

I have heard NOTHING about that number.. anyone know??

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Same thing happened in 2004.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. Very true. In 2000 it was talked about non-stop.

[billyoc]

2. Do they even know yet? A lot of absentee ballots haven't been counted.

They take FOREVER to count.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. And how do they know if an absentee ballot...

was military?

I don't know how other places do it, but here the envelope it comes back in will have identification, and maybe an APO address, making it obvious where it came from. But, the ballots are then pulled out of the envelopes and separated so no one knows how individuals, or groups, voted.

As with everyone else, they know you voted, but don't know how you voted.

FWIW, my county had an incredible number of absentee ballots (including mine). Over 40,000 last I heard and is overwhelmed counting them. They usually send them to the EDs so they can be added to the local totals, but this time there were just too many.

[secondwind]

3. maybe they only count them if it is a close election (?)

[John Q. Citizen]

6. How would we know how close it is if they don't count them?

[leftofcool]

5. Because as a general rule, those in uniform are not allowed

to speak out about this without some permissions

[John Q. Citizen]

10. What "permissions" are you talking about. Please site your sources. Thanks!

You can site "the general rule" number or source.

[frickaline]

7. It is probably hard to exit poll them since many aren't in the country. /nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Because probably 2/3 of them voted for Obama.

[Qanisqineq]

11. My husband (a soldier) and I voted absentee

we are in Korea. We had to send our ballots attached to emails. Weird. I don't know if it got counted or not. We applied for absentee ballots but never got them so were instructed to download some ballot and send it to some email address.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. I heard about soldiers from Indiana doing something like that.

I thought it was questionable (ripe for fraud) when I heard about it.

[Qanisqineq]

14. It seemed suspicious to me

I was voting absentee for Colorado and my husband for Illinois but we didn't get our ballots so we had to just do national ballots and email them. I didn't feel comfortable with it at all. I received a confirmation email that my ballot had been received.

[furgee]

12. I had the very same question

Geez maybe that "Liberal" press just doesn't want to talk about how the military has left the repuke party!!