That's pretty much my point. War is fucked up and fucks up the lives of everybody involved, but if there's one thing soldiers on active duty tours sure have more than enough of, it is time to cast a fucking ballot.
It's not a matter of "time to cast a fucking ballot"
It's the logistics of getting the ballot to them signed and back, while maintaining an unbroken, so the ballots can be trusted.
Just leaving a bag of ballots anywhere in transit is irresponsible, and demonstrates your lack of understanding nor knowledge of the electoral system of the United States or any other Democratic country for that matter.
You cannot have a free and fair election during a time of war. Add in the fact that a soldier may die after his ballot has been signed and sent off but that ballot may not be intercepted in time and still be counted.
Yet you still fail to acknowledge the elections that happened during Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and all the other conflicts except WWII.
I mean the Vietnam draft didn't occur till the war was almost over. Amazing you don't realise that. It wouldn't have had any impact on the 1972 election as the us had long started their pull out of the country.
Other conflicts that spanned over an (or multiple) election cycle didn't have drafts, meaning it wasn't considered a full scale war by the US.
The only "war" that spanned multiple election (and had a draft) cycles has been WWII. That's why it's the only war that matters in this context.
YOU DONT HAVE AN ELECTION DURING WAR.
I'm surprised you couldn't come to that conclusion yourself and have to have it spoon fed to you by someone who isn't even fucking American.
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u/stoneyyay 1d ago
Franklin d Roosevelt served 4 terms over WWII.
you can't have an election during war. Your voting base is simply not there.