Posted on 09/08/2012 8:27:21 AM PDT by raptor22
Military: The administration thanks the troops for their service by failing to comply with a law requiring that it help soldiers deployed overseas cast ballots in their home states.
The administration has taken various states to court to block voter ID laws on the grounds it will disenfranchise voters. But it has no qualms about the disenfranchisement of military voters overseas through its failure to comply with and enforce the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama.
The law acknowledges the difficulties caused by time and distance for deployed soldiers in exercising the right to vote they put their lives on the line to protect. One of the key provisions required each military branch to create an installation voting assistance office (IVAO) for every military base outside an immediate combat zone.
Last week, however, the Pentagon's inspector general reported that attempts to locate and contact IVAO offices at overseas military installations failed about half the time.
"Results were clear. Our attempts to contact IVAOs failed about 50% of the time," the inspector general reported. "We concluded the Services had not established all the IVAOs as intended by the MOVE Act because, among other issues, the funding was not available."
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Sent to Drudge.
I’m pissed...there is a donate thread allowed for the Tea Party Express yet my thread was booted for info/donations to buy seats at the CELEBRITY THEATRE
hypocrits
World looks different with both eyes open, doesnt it!
don’t it and happy weekend to ya Mag !
This is insane.... our service men and women should vote FIRST before any other votes even start to get counted :-(
HOW does he get ANY military votes?
Well, not exactly -- he did attend one at Omaha Beach in 2009, which was the 65th anniversary.
Snopes, of course, tries to earn their Soros $$ by argle-bargling that "Well, Shrub didn't either!!" But when you look at who attended what when, it's clear that Dubya was at least twice as punctilious as Barky -- and that's not counting all the hospital visits and runs and bike jaunts he did, and still does, with the wounded veterans. There is NO COMPARISON, and yet there's Snopes, grubbing away for their Master of the Universe dollars by excusing Barky Boy. Scum, all of them.
Just what I was thinking (bitter spit).
Remember that story in 2000 about Slick ordering a big CV -- was it the JFK?s -- returning Stateside from the Med to throw their mailbags of absentee ballots off the fantail? Remember that one?
Unfortunately, there's a long tradition of this sort of thing. Abraham Lincoln furloughed some troops deemed politically reliable, so they could go home and vote in Illinois and Indiana. Others were ordered to stand fast.
Still other troops were sent to New York under the command of political poltroons like Ben Butler, to "defend" the polling places against "seditious elements" (read: Democrats), and were actually instructed to follow any orders to fire on people trying to vote who were "seditious and unreliable elements" (Democrats) and who refused to disperse at the order of the election officials.
It was very unpleasant, but Lincoln had to have his return to office, just like Barky today. It was of vital national importance, you see.
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