Posted on 10/17/2012 8:00:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jurisdictions in at least four states - Vermont, Michigan, Mississippi and Wisconsin - failed to send absentee ballots to members of the military by the required September 22 deadline, Breitbart.com reported Monday.
Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the Departments of Justice and Defense demanding assurances that the rights of military personnel and overseas citizens who vote absentee will be protected in the November elections after learning the states failed to mail the ballots by the deadline, the Army Times said.
“We are concerned that, absent prompt and effective remedial action, some men and women in uniform will be deprived of the 45-day window to vote guaranteed by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act," wrote Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-CA), chairman of the House Administration Committee and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
"While implementation and enforcement of the MOVE Act appear on course as an improvement over the poor performance we saw in the 2010 elections, we are concerned about the currently reported shortcomings. If any element of local, state or federal government does not abide by the MOVE Act, the result should not ever be the disenfranchisement of any member of the armed services,” they wrote.
According to the Times, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont, alleging the state violated the law.
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If one has to sue to get military ballots in... this shows some suspicious hanky panky going on....
SEE HERE:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-15/romney-sues-wisconsin-seeks-absentee-ballot-extension
Romney Sues Wisconsin, Seeks Absentee Ballot Extension
Obama’s DoD at Work: Military Absentee Ballot Requests Drop by Over 90% in Some States
Requests from military voters for absentee ballots have dropped significantly since 2008, according to newly released statistics, prompting claims that the Department of Defense is dragging its feet in enacting a law meant to boost military voting.
The drop in the battleground states of Virginia and Ohio is among the most pronounced. According to statistics released Monday by The Military Voter Protection Project, the number of absentee ballot requests by both military members and other overseas voters in the two states has dropped 70 percent since 2008.
Virginia had nearly 42,000 total requests in 2008, compared with a little more than 12,000 this year, according to the MVP Project. Ohio had more than 32,000 in 2008, compared with 9,700 this year. The number of military voters specifically — as opposed to military and overseas voters — was not broken down in the latest set of statistics, but military-only numbers released by the MVP Project in August documented a similar drop-off in applications.
At the time, military ballot requests in Virginia were down 92 percent. Several other states showed a precipitous drop since 2008, including Alabama, North Carolina and Florida.
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Now, if a Republican president failed to mail out absentee ballots to welfare counties, the MSM would have a coronary! Those are democrat voters!
Romney and company need to make this into an ad and buy the airtime to really let the people running the elections process in those states get clobbered with it and slime Obozo and his justice department in the process.......
RE: Clinton did the same thing to get reelected.
Would the Military vote have MATTERED in 1996?
Dole was beaten badly 49-41 (with Perot at 8.4%).
Clinton won 379 electoral votes with Dole at 159.
Our military has communications equipment secure enough to issue launch orders for nuclear launches. The only reason for our military to not be able to vote electronically, is because there are those who would prefer the votes of military members to go uncast, or barring that, uncounted.
SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE CALLED OBAMA’A ATTENTION TO IT LAST NIGHT
These state officials and bureaucrats are breaking federal law.
They should be charged and prosecuted to the full extent of that law.
Rudy Giuliani for Attorney General! The guy that took down the NY mob is the perfect choice to prosecute the whole mess of corrupt officials and bureaucrats that have plundered the federal budget for the last four years.
do they have people on the inside dumping applications in the trash?
All that Big Ears has to do is file an EO deleting the military vote. Whoever opposes such action will their suit sent to the leftist appointed judges & they will stand up for the left. Why not, this is a banana republic.
RE: Al Sharpton- Jessee Jackson Where are you?
That’s like talking to a brick wall...
They’re only concerned about disenfranchisement when the victims are BLACK *AND* LIBERAL.
there are bussloads of blacks in lines at the county recorders offices nationwide casting Provisional Ballots
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