Instead he suspended consideration of the case so Texas courts could rule on whether the military voters met state registration requirements.

A total of 140,358 military and overseas voters will be served by the jurisdictions receiving grants.

California has received $468,522.00 to create an interactive voter registration website to serve military and overseas voters.

These grants give the States a chance to test technologies to learn what helps military and overseas voters most.

In previous interviews, program officials defended their efforts and denied that they were favoring military voters.

Mr. Buyer wrote to the services, he said, to help him understand how severely military voters had been affected.

When ballots were defended, they were from military voters.

"The president is on probation with military voters," he said.

Fax capabilities, on the other hand, are generally unavailable to military voters and overseas citizens.

Increasing numbers of military and retired voters have swung the district to the right.