I retired from the Division of Elections in my state. As I'm sure you are aware, there are criteria in every state for whether a ballot is to be accepted. Some of them, among others, are a signature and a printed name, a date, and a postmark on the envelope that is no later than election day.

This is so no one has a valid vote on November 8 or later.

Military mail is gathered and forwarded by the various APO and FPO offices. I don't understand why the military, knowing the operative criteria, are not able to date-stamp everything in each mail bag. Just who is not sufficiently sensitive to the rights of the voter!

Earlier last week someone on CNN said that the Secretary of State (which is the office that is in charge of elections in the states)in her instructions reiterated that an envelope must have a valid, ie, by Election Day, postmark. It is also so given in the Statutes book.

Ebbie