How American Soldiers Voted in World War II
Unlike today, voting for the World War Two servicemen was not such a straightforward affair. That isn’t to say voting for modern American Servicemen and Women isn’t easy, only that things have objectively improved since WWII. Soldiers attempting to vote encountered numerous obstacles to make absentee voting difficult or non-existent. It took a series of changes, each building incrementally, to loosen up the restrictions in time for the armed forces to vote in the Presidential election of 1944. One of the biggest changes was the political shift of the Republicans to allow (or at least not inhibit the Democrats) a federal presence in what is to be considered an area of states’ rights.
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