The end product in 2008—and especially in 2010—is a more complete picture of absentee military voting in the U.S. Last week, the EAC released its 2010 post-election report showing that approximately 4 percent of military voters (100,557 of 2.5 million) were able to successfully vote by absentee ballot. (see: http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/Documents/EAC%202010%20UOCAVA%20Report_FINAL.pdf).
A report issued by my organization, MVP Project, in conjunction with Chapman University (see: http://www.mvpproject.org/MVPProject_study_download.pdf) reaches a similar conclusion. The MVP Report found that approximately 4.6 percent of military voters were able to cast an absentee ballot that counted. However, as emphasized in the report, the MVP Report was an early snapshot of the EAC data and was limited to data from 24 states.
Eversole Responds on Discrepancy in Military Voter Turnout Data, Questions FVAP data
