More states seek exemption from protecting military voters

Election Law Center ^ | J Christian Adams

[Brugmansian]

More states have sought an exemption from compliance with new federal law designed to ensure our soldiers, sailors and marines in forward operating bases have enough time to get their ballots and vote.

The federal law requires that they be sent ballots at least 45 days in advance of an election.

Washington has joined the growing number of states seeking to avoid compliance with new Federal law, known as the “MOVE Act” to protect military voters. I will be reporting at Pajamas Media shortly about the states which have sought a waiver, the Pentagon’s reaction to the submissions, and the Department of Justice’s attitude toward protection of military voters in the upcoming mid-term elections.

See the Washington waiver submission here.

[EagleUSA]

Already stuffing the ballot box.

[rawhide]

Democrats looking to deny and cheat the military from the counting of their votes, as they know the majority of military personnel will vote Republican. Another dirty trick by the Democrats.

In the meantime, the Democrats offer felons, criminals, and illegals all the rights of law-abiding citizens, the right to vote and have their vote counted, as the Democrats know the majority of these groups of people will vote Democrat.

[Cacique]

Why do I suspect they are all blue states and love to have illegal aliens register to vote.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This is an outrage.

[ThomasThomas]

Does this law cover all elections? There no excuse for national and state wide elections. I could see some cities or counties not having a ballot complete 45 day before an local election.

[Brugmansian]

This was as bipartisan bill as we'll ever see. Schumer introduced it. Brownback, DeMint, Inhofe, Ensign, Thune, Cornyn, Lieberman, Kerry, Kennedy, Leahy, Feinstein, Cantwell and dozens of others were co-sponsors.

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[butterdezillion]

Is there any way that these people and the mobster they elected have NOT pissed on our service members?

[Enough_Deceit]

I couldn’t agree more! This is a travesty!

[RocketRoland]

If they dont deserve to vote bring them home. May God condemn any state that goes along with this obamanation.

[Sergio]

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[Clintonfatigued]

The Democrats have coddled illegal aliens and declared war on American soldiers.

[SunkenCiv]

Washington has joined the growing number of states seeking to avoid compliance with new Federal law, known as the "MOVE Act" to protect military voters.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Besides Washington State, what are the other states?

[Gator113]

Damnable traitors. Just one more reason to be disgusted with my own state of Washington.

[Brugmansian]

This is a teaser for an article J. Christian Adams is writing for Pajamas Media in which he will list the states and how the DOJ is responding.

[Eva]

I get an internal server error message when I try to access the Washington State application. Can you help?

[Brugmansian]

Junked up site, wasn't it? Managed to download the pdf of the Washington State waiver and then uploaded it to another site here:

Washingtonwavier.pdf

Not a big download, only 5 pages long. Screen shot of part of the 1st page:

[Eva]

So, that gives WA about a month to certify the primary and get the ballots printed and mailed. Unless the races are close that should be no problem.

I’m going to distribute this to some of the Veterans groups and see if I can get a response. Unfortunately, our Veterans’ groups usually side with the SEIU because they have been led by a life long bureaucrat.