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Overseas ballots should be counted, VA AG says

 
(CNN) – Virginia’s Attorney General is weighing in on the conflict between federal law and a Virginia statute that could have caused some absentee ballots from overseas to be rejected by Fairfax County, Virginia. Federal law allows members of the U.S. military and other voters living overseas to vote in the general election using a federal [...] (link)

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