Republicans Love Denying Servicemen the Right to Vote

Absentee ballots from deployed servicemen don't always come in by Election Day. Probably half, or more, don't. But, in the name of protecting against mythical voter fraud, Republicans are doing their level best to disqualify the ballots of those serving our country overseas.

Ohio’s restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received — despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems — and that change is angering active-duty members of the military and their families because of its potential to disenfranchise them.

The pace of ballot counting after Election Day has become a target of conservatives egged on by former President Donald Trump. He has promoted a false narrative since losing the 2020 election that fluctuating results as late-arriving mail-in ballots are tallied is a sign of fraud.

Republican lawmakers said during debate on the Ohio legislation that even if Trump’s claims aren’t true, the skepticism they have caused among conservatives about the accuracy of election results justifies imposing new limits.

The new law reduces the number of days for county election boards to include mailed ballots in their tallies from 10 days after Election Day to four. Critics say that could lead more ballots from Ohio’s military voters to miss the deadline and get tossed. ... Board of elections data shows that in the state’s most populous county, which includes the capital city of Columbus, 242 absentee ballots from military and overseas voters were received after Election Day last November. Of that, nearly 40% arrived more than four days later and would have been rejected had the new law been in effect.

Anyone who has served overseas knows full well that the mail is often screwed up. Back in the day, it was that, once the mail was delivered to the APO or FPO, it was the job of the military to move the mail to and from military units. It may still be, for all I know.

Cutting off ballot countint to effectively screw over servicemen is evil.

Meanwhile, in other election denier news, Lycoming County, PA, recounted its ballots from the 2020 election after repeated prodding by Trumpist election deniers. It yook them three days and 560 man-hours of time to do it. The results were effectively identical. Proof that there was no "rampant fraud" in the countydidn't satisfy the insane election deniers one frigging bit.

Because, when it comes to the 2020 election, a significant percentage of Republicans are crazier than shithouse rats.