Few States Let Troops Cast Votes Via E-Mail

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan can speak to their families by Web camera and fight insurgents using sophisticated electronic warfare. Yet when it comes to voting, most troops are stuck in the past.

Communities in 13 states will send overseas troops presidential election ballots by e-mail this year, and districts in at least seven states will also let them return completed ballots over the Internet, according to data compiled by The Associated Press and the Overseas Vote Foundation.

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Few States Let Troops Cast Votes Via E-Mail

That still leaves tens of thousands of service members in far- flung military bases struggling to meet voting deadlines and relying largely on regular mail to get ballots and cast votes -- often at the last minute because of delays in ballot preparations in some states.

Adding an electronic boost to the process would ease those problems, but it raises security and privacy concerns.

Pentagon o...

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