The men and women who risk their lives to preserve freedom for all Americans are at risk of losing one of the very freedoms they protect.
Overseas military absentee voting was abysmal in 2008 — only 20 percent of overseas military turned in absentee ballots — and it looks like it’s going to be even worse in 2012. In Virginia and Ohio, military and overseas ballots have fallen 70 percent since 2008, according to the Military Voter Protection Project. Ohio received only 9,700 ballots in September, whereas in September 2008, it received 32,000.
So, why aren’t soldiers voting? In many cases they simply can’t, and they have their commander in chief, President Obama, to blame.