A new study shows that fewer military personnel are expected to hit the polls this November and KFOX14 spoke with Fort Bliss soldiers about their thoughts on voting.

"These days, they don't think it's very important to vote," Fort Bliss solider Pedro Rentas said about military members. "To me it is, it is very important."

According to Fox News, the number of soldiers expected to vote is down by more than a third.

"We have the absentee vote, you know, so that even if you're deployed it will allow you to vote," Rentas said.

But getting those absentee ballots may not be so easy or reliable.

Experts said the 2010 election had widespread failures in getting the ballots to deployed troops. Fourteen states in the country had at least one county that didn't give them out on time to count in the election, leaving some troops to lose faith in the system.

Joel Quinones said his father served in the military and said he was never deterred by a faulty government system.

"It's very important to vote," Quinones said. "It's like, if you don't vote, then they'll never hear your voice."

"I think it is very important because people complain about all the politics about not doing their job and all that but they don't do something to put their voice out there," Rentas said.