Brightest Ideas of the Week — Sept. 7, 2008

Published September 7, 2008 4:00am ET



Let soldiers vote

1| Pentagon should make sure all military votes are counted

The Details: Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Wayne Allard of Colorado are sponsors of the Military Voting Protection Act of 2008, which directs the Pentagon to do whatever is necessary to collect all absentee ballots cast by overseas members of the U.S. military and deliver those ballots to state elections officials. Less than half of all military absentee votes were counted in the 2006 elections, according to the Election Assistance Commission.

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