For American service members overseas, trying to vote can be more of an exercise in bureaucracy than in democracy. “I witnessed service members receiving ballots days after the election had ended,” former Navy Lt. Emily Trudeau, a Connecticut resident who worked as a voting assistance officer in Iraq and Japan, told a legislative panel in February.
…In Connecticut, nearly 40 percent of ballots that soldiers said they
submitted never arrived to elections offices in a survey conducted in
conjunction with the Connecticut Military Department, said state Sen. Gayle Slossberg, D-Milford.
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