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Someone overseas, serving in the military to get an absentee ballot and have to apply to the county clerk and the county clerk has to send the ballot and they have to fill it out and send it back and oftentimes, this may get lost in translation, and it may not get back and -- in the a timely manner and may not be counted until after the election. >> and the numbers back them in, percentage wise more members of the military are registered than civilians and, the votes are counted at a much lower ...

>> 23 minutes after the hour. time for a few quick headlines. 18 passengers were safely removed from a 50 foot cabin cruiser after it ran aground in boston harbor, human error may have been responsible here and the officials say the boat should not have been at the spot where it hit the rocks and researchers at johns hopkins say the heaviest american children and teens are getting bigger. overall measures of bmi and waist circumference, increased were marked in the heaviest 20% of children. clay...

But they say the level of training is the same across the board. they say the training at that facility was adequate but they acknowledge there was human error on the day of the escape. brian todd, cnn, washington. as a result of the escape, the private prisons warden and chief of security have resigned. you know the court battle over californias prop 8 has same-sex marriage being a very hot topic in the u.s. right now. but how is it viewed in other countries? well be taking a look. im going...

They may not have training in arrest procedure or in escape prevention, riot techniques, responsibilities, responses to emergency situations that could require physical force up to and including deadly physical force. >> reporter: gasten says its important that guards have all that training and certification as so-called peace officers. an official with the states department of corrections tells us guards at arizonas privately run jails like the one in kingman do not have the certification and d...

>> reporter: gaston says its important that guards have all of that training and certificate fixes as peace officers. an official with the state department of corrects says guards at the privately run jails do not have that certification, dont have the power to make arrests as guards at publicly run jails can but say the level of training is the same across the board and the that the training at that facility was adequate but there was human error on the day of the escape. talking about a fran...

Aggravated assault. questions are now raised why such dangerous criminals were housed in a medium security facility where guards hadnt noticed right away they had cut through the fence and escaped. >> it appears to have been a human error on the part of several of that staff. >> reporter: a human error with deadly consequences for an innocent couple from oklahoma. this, as the manhunt continues in and around yellowstone and throughout the west. george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. >> george, tha...

>> absolutely. its mind-boggling in a way. what the people of arizona are frustrated, just like so many people in this country, saying why doesnt the federal government enforce our borders? why dont they enforce immigration laws? why have we got such a problem with immigration, illegal immigration? its because the federal government, over the years, both parties, looked the other way. american people are getting fed up with it. we ought to either enforce the law or we ought to repeal the law. i ...

Be human error. the transportation department looked at this, mike, and we got this response. this person was not involved in any aspect of the investigation into the sudden acceleration. nhtsa is viewing the involvement in the alleged acceleration incident but the review is not complete. the gist of that from face value is we werent ready to release anything. were not hiding anything. >> well, of course, i think that that -- thats an even logical response from the department of transportation. ...

Human error and a complicated paper trail for the massive oversight. >> sam stein, you covered the white house very closely obviously. you put all of these stories together with the wikileaks story from earlier in the week. not a good week for a white house that is looking to escalate, in effect, put more troops into afghanistan. >> yeah, no. i mean, the bad news just doesnt end. but i think it sort of gets to what you were talking about with the weighty 9/11 issue that there is saens of fatigue...

Ever. a senate report reveals as many as 6,600 graves may be unmarked or mislabeled at arlington national cemetery. a previous u.s. army estimate had the number at about 211. well, the cemeterys former superintendent who was forced to resign over the scandal blames human error and complicated paper trail for the massive oversight. >> mike, you pawl of these things together and it paints an ugly picket. we talked about last month, june, 60 dead. that was the worst month since the beginning of the...