Besides being a great civic gesture, the move is probably a smart political play for Brown, a Lt. Colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard. The Eagle-Tribune reported in September that more than 750 soldiers and airmen of the Mass. National Guard are currently overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that number is expected to increase.
I'm not going to broadly generalize how these soldiers would vote, but it's probably safe to say that Colonel Brown has some supporters that will be taking advantage of absentee ballots.
Read the full email below.
Scott Brown's email to supporters on absentee ballots:
Friend --
You can request your absentee ballot to vote right now.
Voting with an absentee ballot is easy, all you have to do is to fill out this request form and return it to your City or Town Clerk. If you wish to cast an absentee ballot for both the Primary Election on December 8, 2009 and the Special Election on January 19, 2010, check the appropriate boxes in section one of the Absentee Ballot Application.
You also have the option to go to the city or town clerk's office and fill out an absentee ballot application right there and vote there at the same time.
Please call ahead and schedule a time with your City/Town clerk. You can find your City/Town Clerk’s phone number here.
A family member of a person who is registered to vote in Massachusetts may apply to the city or town where that person is registered for an absentee ballot for that voter. The family member may apply by letter that includes name, address as registered, ward or precinct if you know it, address where you want the absentee ballot sent, which party ballot you want if the election is a primary (you must be registered to vote in the party you request or you must be unenrolled in any party), and your signature.
The deadline for applying for an absentee ballot is noon on the day before an election. (However if you will be sending your ballot through the mail, you need to allow for enough time for your application to get to your City or Town clerk and for the ballot to come to you by mail.)
The ballot must be received in the clerk's office before the close of the polls on Election Day.
To Victory,
-Scott Brown
Read the full email below.
Scott Brown's email to supporters on absentee ballots:
Friend --
You can request your absentee ballot to vote right now.
Voting with an absentee ballot is easy, all you have to do is to fill out this request form and return it to your City or Town Clerk. If you wish to cast an absentee ballot for both the Primary Election on December 8, 2009 and the Special Election on January 19, 2010, check the appropriate boxes in section one of the Absentee Ballot Application.
You also have the option to go to the city or town clerk's office and fill out an absentee ballot application right there and vote there at the same time.
Please call ahead and schedule a time with your City/Town clerk. You can find your City/Town Clerk’s phone number here.
A family member of a person who is registered to vote in Massachusetts may apply to the city or town where that person is registered for an absentee ballot for that voter. The family member may apply by letter that includes name, address as registered, ward or precinct if you know it, address where you want the absentee ballot sent, which party ballot you want if the election is a primary (you must be registered to vote in the party you request or you must be unenrolled in any party), and your signature.
The deadline for applying for an absentee ballot is noon on the day before an election. (However if you will be sending your ballot through the mail, you need to allow for enough time for your application to get to your City or Town clerk and for the ballot to come to you by mail.)
The ballot must be received in the clerk's office before the close of the polls on Election Day.
To Victory,
-Scott Brown
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