Obama supports the troops: Urges counting of military votes

By GottaLaff

What better way to support the troops than to insist that they participate in the very democracy that they're defending:

Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign is encouraging state elections officials to ensure that all military personnel serving away from home are able to vote, after a Virginia law threatened to toss some absentee ballots aside.

Each state has its own rules for absentee voting, often used by troops away on duty. Obama campaign attorney Robert Bauer sent letters to every secretary of state in the country, asking them to take "all steps necessary to make sure that our military voters can vote and that those votes are counted."

How novel. Counting every vote. Imagine that.

Virginia's attorney general stepped in Monday and said all the ballots must be counted under federal law, which trumps the state law. Federal law does not require the address of a witness to be included.

For the first time in eight years, I'm feeling reassured that someone is looking out for us. All of us.