The Military Vote Could Determine the Next President -- After Election Day

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Here are some data points to consider attached as graphics for the 2012, 2016 and 2018 elections that may shed light on the importance of veterans being registered and actually exercising the right to vote.

Two issues are important: (1) Registering to vote; and (2) Absentee / mail in ballots.

(1) Registering to vote - it is disturing the seeing the number of veterans who did not exercise their RIGHT to vote even if registered. I hope for 2020 this vastly improves.

(2) Absentee / Mail-in ballots - it concerns me greatly that various reports had highlighted willful efforts to suppress the vote of veterans with ballots being discovered in trash cans, dumpsters, etc.

In terms of registering to vote, my grandson who turn 18 a few months ago was able to register in Virginia online in < 5 mins. A couple weeks later had his official registration card, but he was able to vote this summer at the momment he registered online.

In terms of absentee/mail-in voting. My wife is in NC to help our son with our granddaughter. Meaning, she would not be here in VA to vote in person. Again, she was able to in < 5 min request and receive a ballot delivered to her in NC but countable for VA. She mailed it last week. It concerns me that stories of ballots being trashed, etc. will nullify the vote of both a women and a veteran.

In any event, hope the voting graphics attached help to drive home to the RP family the importance, regardless of party, voting has.

Finally, my father, who imigrated here after WWII, obtained his citizenship and joined the new USAF in the early 1950s would often say to me: "Son, if you don't vote, don't complain. You had a chance to make a difference and you were derilict in your duty to be an American." Dad has been gone since 1999, but he had worked to become a US Citizen and instilled that democracy is hard and worth fighting for. After all, he and my grandmother has just survived the holocaust. He gaven me a since of responsibility that I had to engage, especially when I joined the US Navy. While we may have disgreed on some issues, his focus was to make sure I engaged. I have always appreciated and respected that!

Just some thoughts.....................

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COL Mikel J. Burroughs; COL Lee Flemming; LCdr (Rabbah) Rona Matlow; Maj Marty Hogan; SMSGT Gerald "Doc" Thomas; SCPO Morris Ramsey; Lt Col Charlie Brown; LTC (Join to see); Maj William "Bill" Price; LTC Stephen C.; LTC Stephen F.; Capt Dwayne Conyers; CMSgt (Join to see); SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth; LTC Jason Mackay; MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi; MSgt Paul Connors (Publishing); SFC James J Palmer IV (JP4);Maj Alea Nadeem; Sgt Elizabeth Scheck

No it can not "determine" or have a "significant" factor in the outcome. Here is why and I'll use all military instead of just overseas. There are about 1,300,000 service members. About 56% are married. That would bring a total to around 2,028,000. On average, about 63.3% of the population in each state (some are higher 77.1% and some lower 49.5%). Using this that would come to about 1,283,724. There are about 250,056,000 (2016 data) registered voters. That is about 0.5% of the registered voters. Now lets break down further by 50 states. That comes to 25,674.48 per state. The bottom line, the military vote will not be a factor.