J.R. continues to support efforts to engage members of the Armed Forces and their families in elections. The right to vote is too important to be mired in red tape. Only 17 percent of our military men and women eligible to vote participated in 2006, and while that number has increased in 2008, it is still not enough. Those serving overseas to protect our way of life deserve easy accessibility to the right to vote.

J.R. supports a streamlined absentee voter process that works to include our military men and women in the electoral process. Voter turnout among the military is astonishingly low due to a cumbersome process for voting and a lack of information on candidates running in local and statewide elections. J.R. will address these shortcomings for Kansas voters serving our country.



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