DoJ sues NY over absentee ballot fiasco
You may remember that late last week i told you that New York failed to mail out absentee ballots to make their negotiated deadline of October 1st. The Department of Justice has finally discovered something they can sue about and filed a lawsuit against the State yesterday according to the New York Times;
While all the remaining ballots — roughly 40,000, federal officials said — have now been sent, the delay raised the risk that some might be returned too late to be counted in the election results.
The Justice Department said it was negotiating with New York election officials over extending a period after the Nov. 2 election by which such ballots could arrive and still be counted. The goal of the negotiations is to reach a joint agreement to settle the lawsuit as a consent decree approved by a federal judge, which would be legally binding and would pre-empt state election laws.
NYS’s primary was held September 14th so they had two weeks ro print the ballots and send them out. According to another NY Times article, NY is planning on moving the primaries up in order to make the deadline next year. But that doesn’t excuse the fact that they missed the deadline this year.
NY should have moved their primary up this year since the MOVE Act passed last year and NY’s primaries were scheduled for only the fourth day before the deadline to mail out absentee ballots. Anyone could’ve seen this coming…even a blind governor.
Category: Liberals suck
“Anyone could’ve seen this coming…”
No kidding. I can find no reasonable, rational excuse for this happening … again. I’m not a real fan of conspiracies, but this ongoing problem seems to be widespread. As an example, Franken was reported to have won because so many military votes didn’t get counted.
The MOVE Act was supposed to deal with this, but clearly hasn’t. IMO, it needs to be amended and some draconian MANDATORY penalties for noncompliance added to it. Say $100 Million Fine to the offending state, per disqualified vote. Automatic charges of Malfeasance upon the individual(s) whom did not carry out their duty and automatic permanent disqualification from ever holding any position whatsoever, in any public office, department or agency, upon conviction of Malfeasance, in all fifty states.
Good for the Department of Justice. It is obvious the democrats don’t want the military vote counted.
Active attempts to obstruct the voting rights of the military identifies them as wanting to hold office without the legal consent of the people. They are treating the US Constitution as if it has no meaning and in doing so treat the people with contempt. They should be exposed for what they are and that is how we need to know them. With contempt and without our vote.