Your remark about the Registered Minnesota Voter signature requirement being “onerous” is perhaps the most asinine comment I’ve heard today. Are you a registered MN voter? If you are – guess what genius…YOU COULD HAVE SIGNED FOR HER! Your neighbor could sign for her. The mailman could sign for her. About the only person who couldn’t sign for her is the illegal immigrant who mows your lawn!

Rules are there for a reason..they can not, should not, must not be changed retroactively..which is my greatest fear about this election…that some liberal judge who wants to re-write the law will rule that all rejected absentee votes should count because obviously the rules are too tough for some clueless fools to follow.

The ‘registered Minnesota voter’ witness requirement is onerous, and I think it should be eliminated. She is in New York State caring for her dying father. Like a lot of voters who are out-of-state, she doesn’t have *access* to a registered Minnesota voter. You can also have the ballot notarized, but we learned this from Google, not from the terrible instructions on the absentee ballot. The only indication that you can have the ballot notarized is an obscure reference to providing a “non-notary registered Minnesota voter address”. She brought the ballot to a notary, who also did not understand the instructions. But the notary signed it and stamped it (though there is no good location for the notary’s stamp/signature), and my wife sent the ballot by FedEx Express. She does not know if the ballot was ultimately accepted or rejected.

One thing I don’t understand: how can these rejected absentee ballots ever be counted if they were returned (unopened) to the voters? Is it common practice to return the ballots to the voters if they are defective? Does the board of elections retain records (photocopies of the envelopes) for rejected ballots, or do they just send them back?

And for the life of me, I don’t know why you have to have a witness. If the voter signature on the envelope reasonably matches the voter’s registration form, what more do you need?

Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.

At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.

You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.

He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!

Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.

Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.

Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.

As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don’t have to be Saxby Chambliss’s victims anymore.

I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.

God bless all of you

jacksmith – WORKING CLASS…