and send the bill to the new york RAT PARTY!!!
Posted on 10/12/2010 5:50:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Election '10: The de facto disenfranchisement of soldiers by an incompetent Board of Elections is a shameful slap in the face of those who are fighting and dying in two wars to protect our right to vote and theirs.
There's no excuse for this. None. The failure of the state of New York's Board of Elections to send out absentee ballots to the state's military and overseas voters, even after being granted a federal extension under the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, is made worse by the fact that New York City on 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of the war on terror.
We agree with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on this one when he said: "We send our young men and women overseas to fight and to die for us and we don't care enough to make sure they get the right to exercise their franchise? That's what they're over there fighting for as much as anything else."
The Department of Justice has belatedly threatened a lawsuit to force compliance with federal law now that it's become headline news, but the feds should have been on top of this a long time ago. Perhaps DOJ was too busy protecting the right of the New Black Panthers to intimidate voters.
"A credible enforcement operation would have detected a problem on Oct. 2," says J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney who gave testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about DOJ's refusal to prosecute the Black Panthers. "DOJ didn't detect it, and almost two weeks later, the situation has become critical in New York and other states. The only place they have sued to enforce the law? Guam."
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“There are libtards here in Minnestoopid who believe that anyone in the military, or anyone with a military background, should be prohibited from participating in the political process in any form.”
Whereas I think only men on active duty or with an honorable discharge should be able to vote, and then only after demonstrating a sufficient command of the issues.
Will the military families and veterans in New York put up with this without demanding the removal of the vermin that allowed this to happen? What are the VFW’s doing as well as the GOP?
Has Drudge, Rush, or Hannity exposed this?
Starship Troopers, service for citizenship.
and send the bill to the new york RAT PARTY!!!
...every election this happens, and every election promises are made....this time I want names of those responsible. Those who have made decisions, those who have not done what was expected of them. THE MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN DESERVE A RESPONSE!
Might the affected service members file congressional complaints? If so, would it make a difference?
Might the affected service members file congressional complaints? If so, would it make a difference?
Than anyone who votes the liberal ticket should not count.
They can do it but the DemDummies don’t give a damn.
Our military patriots need our help to have the human waste that intentionally did this exposed and thrown out of office in disgrace. We The People “MUST” demand that as well. We want names and we want them now.
Calling New York Freepers to help.
All NY vote counting will be postponed until military votes are returned, right? No?
That’s the penalty I’d give the State who couldn’r follow the law.
Until there is a consequence for the lack of action, what do you expect?
Incompetent? No. Soldiers tend to vote wrong.
“Starship Troopers, service for citizenship.”
That couldn’t have stayed with me all these decades. After all, “it’s only a book.”
I wonder how many conservatives were influenced by RAH across the years.
With the way the government disregards the voting rights of our troops and the way the mainstream media does everything it can to provide aid and comfort to the enemy at the direct cost of our troops lives, it would not suprise me to hear about some trooper coming back home and airing out some office.
It was a very insightful book!
“It was a very insightful book!”
Too bad his early stuff isn’t read much any more. He went a little — or a lot — flaky in his older years, but that early stuff was good.
'Rat-scum bump.
Bump for clarity.
Bill Clinton pulled the same crap in 2000, ordering certain Navy ships to deepsix their mailbags of absentee votes headed home from the Middle East.
Remember that one?
I don't know if it would make a difference, but I think it's unacceptable that NY is doing this and it's certainly worth a shot.
In '08, all of us who were deployed, whether military or civilian and regardless of what state we were from were blatantly disenfranchised.
We simply did not receive our ballots in time for the election. Most of us submitted provisional ballots which only covered the federal election (not our state and local), but we doubt they were ever counted.
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