« on: October 23, 2008, 09:32:13 PM »
McCain campaign says federal absentee ballot wrongly rejectedFairfax General Registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he had had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law — then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then-state Sen. Bill Bolling — requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but the current address of the witness.
The McCain campaign said there's not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said that the federal document was changed in recent years and that the space for the witness address was removed. But the Virginia law hasn't changed.
It's not clear how many ballots might be affected. Suleman said that Fairfax received about 260 Federal Absentee Write-In Ballots and that he wasn't sure what percentage of those had to be rejected.
That compares with the 50,000 total absentee ballots Suleman expects to receive this year in Fairfax.
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