Washington Times; Surrendering military votes
The Washington Times staff takes some swipes at the Justice Department today in their editorial entitled Surrendering military votes this morning;
At least 16 states or territories are or recently were in noncompliance with the law requiring military ballots be mailed at least 45 days before Election Day so they can reach troops stationed in remote locales. The most widespread violations appear to be in Illinois, where “at least 34 out of Illinois’ 110 jurisdictions failed to comply,” according to [Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, both of California, and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas]. On top of that, whistleblower J. Christian Adams reported yesterday, Chicago election officials are sending a suspicious number of ballots electronically rather than on paper. When these are returned by service members, they “must be re-created” by local election officials onto ballots that can to be tallied by Sequoia ballot machine readers. Such a complicated process poses an invitation to political shenanigans, especially in a place with a reputation for ballot stuffing like the Windy City.
Despite months of warnings from outside watchdogs, Justice officials sit on their hands.
I think it was Operator Dan I saw on the VoteVets forum asking when that non-partisan group was going to mention the violations of the MOVE Act and the response was that “only Guam” was in violation. Well, “only Guam” and 15 other States. I remember someone over there taking credit for the MOVE Act, but I guess they’ve washed their hands of it.
Nothing at IAVA, either. After the stink that Old Cue Ball Paul Reickhof put up over his scorecard last election cycle, you’d think that they’d be upset over the MOVE violations – they lied and misconstrued facts to earn those votes from the military, you’d think they’d be concerned if they actually got them.
Of course, there’s a shortage of information at the VFW website, too. At least The Burn Pit links to articles on the subject.
At the IVAW, Geoff Millard is more concerned about delivering goat feed to Iraqis than his “brothers and sisters” getting their votes counted. Don’t come back Millard.
Category: Politics
The math on this one isn’t hard to figure out; many of the areas that are having “problems” with military ballots are also the ones that have been very close campaigns…military voters trend toward Republican candidates more than Democrat candidates…if these elections get down to a couple hundred votes either way, suppressing the ballots of a group that can reliably swing the election to the Republican candidate is a logical (aka douchebag) thing to do. Of course you can find a plethora of leftards who will condone such action and in their next breath whine and cry about Diebold screwing with the electronic voting machines in minority communities.
What is the old theory on why Rome fell? That it went from Democracy to Republic to Empire, and the rot came from within?
Honestly, you’d think we would pay more attention to history…
Just being a smart ass here, but paying more attention to history would first illustrate that folks have never been good at paying attention to history, lol.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New International Version)
9. What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Yaya, me quoting scripture, so sue me
🙂
I’m waiting for the locusts.
Yes, I DID have to check the name a second time when I saw what you posted.
And, along those lines…maybe someone could answer an idle question: Is it true that there was a day when the military couldn’t vote at all? I heard that a long time ago, and never saw anything to back it up. I know that in WWII, some shops has signs that said things like “No DOGS or SOLDIERS allowed,” but I never saw anything about voting.
An astute observation should never go unappreciated simply because of the source. 🙂
I’ll take the locusts over rivers of blood, my cat loves playing with them.
Pinto Nag; Lincoln gave all soldiers from Ohio a leave so they could home and vote in the 1864 elections. I guess soldiers were allowed to vote at least as far back as then.
These are military voters, thus they will lean heavily towards conservative candidates if allowed to vote and are predominately white. Check the states and I bet most of them are liberal leaning leftist states too. But I digress – the justice department is run by a leftist black racist appointee of Nobama. He has no interest or intention of doing much of anything to enfranchise those whose interests are inimical to his political “master”.