Its almost like putting the mailman in charge of transporting millions of ballots without a chain of custody in a very tense election was not the smartest idea. Go figure.
Kinda my point. What are they shipped them from the closest mailbox or what? How hard is it to have a polling station in a military base? Its is literally filled with sworn government employees. Just have military polling stations or something.
So Sergents have to assign a couple rookies to polling duty instead of cleaning the latrines for a couple days every two years.
I think the problem is foreign deployment. Like, Fort Bragg having a polling station wouldn't be hard, for North Carolina. Just tell them all to suck it up and vote as North Carolinian when their deployed. However, for a base in, say Saudi Arabia, which state does their vote go to?
In ye olden days of mostly regional regirments, you could assign, for example, the 11 NY regiment somewhere in new york, but battalions don't work that way.
Now, the historical historical way this was solved was that the number of people voting was fairly small, the military was tiny, and much of the military rank and file, or at least new ones, weren't eligible to vote anyways, being too young and such (21+ voting age). So, military men not voting, or having complications in doing so, wasn't some huge issue.
So, the military was utterly tiny until the modern era, we didn't have many overseas deployment until the modern era anyways, and until WWI we didn't have all that many people voting anyways.