Alabama: why not fax the overseas absentee ballots?
Ed Packard writes in the Montgomery Advertiser: While I have no quarrel with extending the absentee voting period, we should also look at easier and quicker methods for the military to request, receive and vote their absentee ballots. The Pentagon already has an established service that allows for the fax or e-mail transmission of voting materials.
During the first Gulf War, Alabama had no problem allowing our soldiers to transmit voting materials via fax. But now, leaders in the Legislature and the executive branch say they cannot support these methods, despite the fact that all other states allow the military to utilize some kind of electronic or fax transmission to complete all or part of the absentee voting process. -- montgomeryadvertiser.com:: State must empower military voters