Xactly. I was wonder what A&R was getting at.

Unless your shift falls on a voting day.

The BIG OIL company I retired from would give you time off during the day to go vote unless you were in a 'vital' position like mine. Once we entered the area, which was a high security area, we could not leave until our shift was over. Shifts were 12 hours, and with travel time to and from work the day lasted 14 hours.

If your shift fell on a voting day... Tough. No voting for you!

So we just started calling in sick in order to give us enough time to vote and then show up for work. Of course, any sick time taken counted against you during your annual review, but we never worried about those because no one could remember the last time anyone ever was promoted out of our group. At our level the next step up would have been a VP slot, and we knew that was not going to take place.

There is no good reason for any government body to restrict what is a Right. None at all. The only reason for restricting the voting rights of anyone or any group is because the party in power fears the voters.

Think about that for a moment, and then see if you still think restricting the Rights of a voter is OK.

If so, whose rights should the government restrict next? Gun owners? Radio broadcasters?

'Cause the rest of us don't live in a looney bin and the neighbors will call the cops, that's why. Now if you wish to continue yelling do it in person and the men in all white will come and give you pill to stop yelling.


We understand politician do bad things and Bush did bad things. So did Clinton, and Bush, and Reagan and Obama too. If you want to yell at all of them go ahead but do it in person.

What's that? Are you trying to tell me that there is more to the Military than the National Guard unit down the street from my house?

Wow. You really do learn something new everyday.

Wow go overboard much? My "shift" sometimes lasts for days/weeks (and sometimes months) at sea- I'm a merchant marine captain. If stupid little me can figure out how to vote the you can too. No one is gonna hold your hand every day of the week and tell you how to solve every problem.

One of my all-time favorite quotes.

Inconceivable...

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I'm not entirely convinced that Inigo Montoya's criticism of his use of the word "inconceivable" is correct, but it is a great quote. Mr. Montoya's best line, though, is: I have yet to have a good opportunity to use that one.

I write the last part in whenever there's a meeting that forces you to wear the "Hello, My Name Is" name tags.

Not a valid comment.

Someone did hold your hand and see to it that you had a way to vote. That's because the folks that set up the rules for voting saw to it that you had a way to do so.

Until Texas allowed for early voting for ANY reason it was impossible to vote unless you had a valid legal reason to vote early. The fact that you had to work that day was not a valid reason.

Then Texas allowed early voting and you did not have to swear out a statement about why you could not show up on election day. That solved not only our problem but the problem of anyone who had to work all day on election day.

But now the Republicans, in their zeal to stomp out voters rights, are doing all they can to take us back to the good old days when it was a Felony to vote early without a valid reason.

So this whole voter suppression thing.... Are you good with that?

This thread is dead. It has now been shown that nobody is trying to disenfranchise military voters. What's happening here is R-Money is using the military as a political pawn. All the Obama lawsuit wants to do is give EVERY voter the same option of voting early. Some politician on the Tee Vee said R-Money ought to be ashamed of himself. I agree.

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Okay. So all this is the fault of the US Soldier, so his/her vote should be suppressed by election rule JerryMandering?

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Responses like this remind me of back when the telephone workers would come to the Bank to work on the faulty wiring of the telephone switchboard,

with all the hundreds of those multicolored wires coming out of the wall.

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Psst Larry, Gerrymandering is the moving of precinct boundaries with the intent of changing election outcomes in your favor. This has been pointed out a couple times already.

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