Could Obama’s efforts to strike down military voting extension cost him election?

Hot Air ^ | August 4, 2012 | Howard Portnoy

[stormer]

Per FOX News: “...the lawsuit does not restrict the ability of military personnel to cast their ballots early...”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/04/obama-campaign-sues-ohio-over-early-voting-law-for-military/#ixzz22e38TS00

[TrueKnightGalahad]

You are being more than a bit dishonest in your characterization of the Ohio law. Every eligible Ohio voter DOES have the opportunity to vote early. The cut-off date for early voting is the Friday (this year, November 2) before Election Day. Ohio law currently permits military early voting to proceed through the weekend, i.e., they may vote on the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday immediately preceeding the election, in effect giving them three 'extra' days. Dohbama's flying monkeys are suing to prevent that allotment of additional time granted to the military.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active duty ping.

[stormer]

Perhaps I could have been more clear. The fact remains that certain citizens are not afforded the same opportunity to vote as others. Again, this applies to in-person voting and not to people deployed far from home voting absentee.

[octex]

The state legislature decided that the only people who could vote early were military, and no one else.
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That’s not true.

Civilians in Ohio are permitted to vote early through Friday before the National voting day of Tuesday.

Ohio citizens in the military are permitted to vote early the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before Tuesday.

[CPT Clay]

It had better!

[SFC Chromey]

Voting in the military has always been a challenge. When I was deployed in early 2001 (pre-9/11), I received a small mailer from my county clerk. It contained about 10 voting guides with absentee ballots for everyone from my county that were deployed with an APO address.

In 2004 same thing happened, only this time there were close to 100 voter guides with absentee ballots. I received every single one from my county for every military person deployed to Iraq/Kuwait.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I was never able to vote while in the service.

[SFC Chromey]

Roger, hopefully we are more successful with this in the future!

For what it’s worth, we effectively weren’t able to vote either. Time delays in shipping through the APO system just isn’t conducive to timely delivery.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Do you remember these?

[SFC Chromey]

SPC-5 and up were before my time, by a couple of years.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I was one of the last sixes before being converted to hard stripe. Spec/7 went out a little after the time I joined, as did the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) although I dated a few at AIT.