Well, that's one way to keep people from voting in the primary

[peacebuzzard]

20. That is a huge number. 5-9 million. The overseas US troop vote at one time

was a large number that basically was discarded since it took so long to tally those returns.
And those troops mattered. In years past it was snail mail; although now it is probably quicker.
But as far as I can remember those votes, military and civilian were never factored in.
During the Gore Bush debacle I often scanned as much news as I could to see where that demographic would figure in.
It never did. And that vote dwindled down to a trivial difference. And that difference changed politics significantly.

In my personal despair over that one is how I found this DU site. I finally found a place with like minds (since I was living in a deep red county at the time).