Arkansas Soldiers To Get Ballots For Elections
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Court challenges and delays mean Arkansas
soldiers in Iraq may have to rely on write-in ballots that don`t
provide enough room for all the federal, state and local races.
Soldiers with the Arkansas National Guard`s 39th Infantry
Brigade at Camp Taji, Iraq, have received federal write-in ballots
with spaces for seven contests. The Secretary of State`s Office and
their staff judge advocate are encouraging them to write several
races per line.
The full absentee ballots haven`t arrived yet because the state
Supreme Court didn`t decide until this week whether to allow
independent candidate Ralph Nader`s name to appear on the
presidential ballots. The state Democratic Party had challenged the
manner in which Nader supporters gathered signatures to place him
on the ballot.
About half of the state`s counties are printing full ballots
now, so most of the soldiers should still get them in time, but,
for now, they must rely on the skimpy write-in documents.
