Brown and Romney, although distant on the campaign trail, share a number of staff members and a top advisor, Eric Fehrnstrom.
In this photo taken Jan. 19, 2010, former Massachusetts Gov. and presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, right, introduces and congratulates U.S. Senator-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass. at his Boston victory party after he won the seat vacated by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. The two Massachusetts Republicans have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers, but facing tough elections neither is playing up that history now, perhaps with good reason. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)More politics news
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The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Senate campaign of GOP U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts are respectively taking issue with absentee ballot deadlines in Vermont and the Bay State.
Romney's campaign is complaining some Vermont military personnel serving overseas might not be able to get their absentee ballots in time to vote. On Tuesday, Brown's campaign raised the same concerns in Massachusetts.
In a letter sent Tuesday to Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, Romney's veterans' affairs adviser Anthony Principi says delays by Condos' office caused 53 towns to miss the 45-day deadline needed to ensure veterans receive their absentee ballots and can return them by election day.
Condos says the recount in a primary race delayed the printing of the November ballots, but town clerks were sent electronic copies of the ballots prior to Saturday's deadline and the vast majority of veterans should have been able to receive them on time.
Condos, a Democrat, calls the issue "a show" by the Romney campaign.
In Massachusetts, where Brown is facing a tight race against Democrat Elizabeth Warren, an attorney with his campaign sent a sharply-worded letter to Secretary of State William Galvin alleging that ballots were delivered late. In the letter, the attorney threatened litigation if Galvin doesn't extend the deadline for returning the absentee ballots, citing concerns about votes from military overseas counting.
Galvin called the letter a "political stunt" while the Brown campaign said the letter was about ensuring that every vote counts.
Brown and Romney, although distant on the campaign trail, share a number of staff members and a top adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.