Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1917 — Many Soldiers Will Vote In the Field. [ARTICLE]

Many Soldiers Will Vote In the Field.

American citizen soldiers, Whether located in cantonments of the national army, mobilization centers of the naval guard or even in France with the expeditionary forces, may vote at the fall elections if their respective states establish voting machinery at the camps. Provost General Crowder said that there will be no bar to the voting of guardsmen or drafted soldiers so far as the federal government was concerned and that the only obstacle would be the absence of state legislation on the subject. Many states have laws, iri some cases dating back to the civil war, permitting citizens under arms to vote when away from home.