Lawyers to IL to defend absentee voters

While we were doing the live blog thing last night, I found an article that has disappeared now about a crowd of lawyers who streamed to Illinois to defend some absentee voters who were supposedly denied their right to vote.

At first I thought “Good! someone’s going to stand up for the troops”. But it wasn’t the troops they were defending. It was some absentee voters who were too lazy to go to the polls in the first place so they registered for absentee ballots…then they were too lazy to mail in their ballots and went to their polling places to vote. Who does that? I guess they heard they could get a free ride or something lazy like that

Then there was some blather about “provisional ballots” or something or other and the sloths were denied their right to confuse the electoral process. Anyway, lawyers were descending on the scene from across the country.

Well, that’s just great. Where are the lawyers jumping to the defense of the troops who won’t get to vote in Illinois. The last I heard, there’s a potential for the number to be 2600 troops just in Illinois. They’re more interested in defending some clown who can’t even get to the post office on time.

Just found the link again;

And in Illinois, the DSCC has filed Freedom Of Information Act requests to take a look at provisional ballots. According to Illinois law, if a voter requests an absentee ballot and does not use it, they are allowed to go and vote by provisional ballot. However, according to Menendez some were turned away.

Category: Military issues