Posted on 09/13/2010 5:42:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
Attorney General Holder should badger Wisconsin for full compliance
The U.S. Justice Department's Voting Rights Section has reached an agreement with the state of Wisconsin that is too weak to adequately protect military voters stationed overseas. The department should not get away with letting other states give short shrift to the voting rights of our armed forces.
In 2008, a disturbing 38 percent - 2,125 out of 5,562 - of ballots requested by Wisconsin's overseas military personnel were either not returned on time, returned as undeliverable or rejected for reasons such as a lack of proper witness signature. It's possible that a soldier who went to the trouble of requesting a ballot might choose not to fill it out, but it's unlikely. More likely is that many of those voters received their ballots so late that they figured there was no way to return them on time to be counted, and thus they didn't bother trying.
It was to combat a nationwide problem of would-be military votes going uncast or uncounted that Congress in 2009 passed the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states to mail absentee ballots to military personnel upon request at least 45 days in advance of the general election. UOCAVA allowed states to receive one-time waivers under restricted circumstances that include an explanation of how else the state will ensure military voting rights. However, the Defense Department rejected the Dairy State's waiver request as providing insufficient guarantees.
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Our pathetic government does all that it can to stop military from voting, but does all it can to help illegals earn the right to vote.
Since the majority of military vote republican, this is just another front of the democrat party election fraud program.
It is not wise to prevent the people with the guns from voting......
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Make sure, make DARN sure that anybody you know that is in the military is aware of this. The government makes the conscious decision to put military personnel in harm’s way - they had BETTER count the votes of the military.
The dems will make sure to keep those guys with the guns over in Iraq and Afghanistan and rob them of their votes while they're over there fighting for the nation. Liberals are evil.
I can’t imagine what it must feel like to try to serve under this President. Nor can I fathom what the parents of these military personnel must be going through.
During the 2004 election, I received my ballot in Korea from Washington in mid-November...so I guess it was AFTER the 2004 election.
No vote from me ;>(
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