Sentences with phrase «military voters get»

However, the Department of Defense granted a waiver to its requirement that military voters get at least 45 days to receive their absentee ballots.

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The possibility of military confrontation with Russia is also a significant issue for US voters, if they don't know anything else about Russia, they know it's got nukes.

Martins said the congressional race needed to be moved back if the primary was delayed to allow absentee ballots to get to military voters overseas and to allow him to fully campaign against the Democrat in the race, Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove.

The Department of Defense denied New York's most recent attempt to get a waiver from the MOVE Act, a law that is aimed at provider broader ballot access to military and overseas voters.

Martins had argued that military and overseas voters wouldn't be assured of getting their printed ballots by the Nov. 8 traditional election, just a month after the Republican primary in the 3rd Congressional District.

After state legislators failed for two years to comply with a federal law requiring that military voters stationed overseas get their ballots 45 days prior to the general election, a federal judge set the beginning of the congressional election calendar at March 20.

Other absentee voters not in the military overseas will get their absentee ballots «as soon as practicable» under state law.