I feel so bad...

[piplover]

Well, today is the big day to vote...and I wasn't able to send in my absentee ballot. By the time I was able to find out who my voting assistance officer was, and actually get a chance to talk to him three weeks ago, it was too late.
Damnit.

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[shirebound]

Pip, that thoroughly sucks! Hmmmph.

*gives you a big hug*

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweety. I could just growl I'm so mad!

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you, on behalf of my disinfranchised sister, who registered to vote from France for the first time in 18 years. Sent paperwork back and forth and back and forth. Her ballot was mailed in September and has not arrived. She managed to vote by fax today, though, after about $29 worth of international calls and faxes.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Egad! I didn't even try to vote two years ago when I was in Korea. It was just too much bother to try and send in all that paperwork overseas.

[pipspebble.livejournal.com]

I think I feel worse. Soooooooo depressed. Looking around for a nice, quiet little country to take my lads where I can raise them without the spectre of forced enlistment looming over their heads. New Zealand. Yes, New Zealand! That may be far enough away for us to find some hope for our future. Right now I see none. :-( :-( :-(

[piplover.livejournal.com]

It will be all right, sweety. I doubt that a draft will be enstated, as the American people wouldn't stand for it again. That, and I know personally I would not like to work with people who have no desire whatsoever to be in the military and yet are being forced.
Just remember, whatever happenes, whoever wins, there is always hope. We just have to hope that next time around we get some better candidates who actually have people who like them.

[pipspebble.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the words of comfort, hon. While your advice is very practical - of course nobody would want to serve with people who don't want to be there in the first place, I completely agree with the wisdom of an all-volunteer army - I don't have any degree of confidence that the administration will see the practicality of it. So much of the policy of late has been a "My mind is made up, do NOT confuse me with facts!" mindset that practicality does not enter into the picture. What happened to the old fashioned notion of "check your facts, collect the results and proceed accordingly?" Right now the motto seems to be "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" Oh, yeah, that and "Either yer fer us, yer or ag'in' us!" *Please!*

((Hugs you, because I worry as much about my friends and family in the military as I worry about my boys))