Military voting: `45 days to receive, mark & return’
Doug Chapin, a nationally prominent, independent elections analyst, writes at electionline.org that the common thread for Washington and the four other states that got a federal waiver was that all meet the test of providing at least 45 days for military and overseas voters to “receive, mark and return” their ballots. Chapin writes: “Less than 45 days meant no waiver.” Washington and nine other states and territories requested waivers due to the short turnaround time between their late primaries and…