{"id":20844,"date":"2010-10-14T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20844"},"modified":"2010-10-14T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:43:13","slug":"three-states-under-doj-investigation-for-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20844","title":{"rendered":"Three States under DoJ investigation for absentee ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the lawsuit DoJ has filed against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/13\/AR2010101306304.html?wprss=rss_metro\">New York<\/a> for failing to mail absentee ballots to voters in time for the votes to be counted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my9tv.com\/dpp\/my9_news\/Justice-Department-New-Mexico-Reach-Agreement-on-MOVE-Act-Enforcement_52045826\">New Mexico<\/a> is also facing penalties as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/military-ballots-illinois-investigation-cook-county-20101013\">Illinois<\/a>. Illinois claims that they&#8217;re in compliance, though;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officials with two of Illinois\u2019 largest jurisdictions \u2014 the Chicago Board of Elections and the Cook County Board of Elections\u2014 said Wednesday that they mailed ballots on time.<\/p>\n<p>But Courtney Greve, spokeswoman for the Cook County Board of Elections, said people can still request overseas ballots until Oct. 28 and receive them via fax or e-mail. She said the board has gotten about 300 of those requests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why would the DOJ be questioning their compliance with the MOVE Act? <\/p>\n<p>All of this sudden concern about absentee ballots (read that; military votes) is fine, but why wasn&#8217;t anyone concerned about it a year ago when it could have done some good?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that all three states are Blue States. I wonder what that means?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the lawsuit DoJ has filed against New York for failing to mail absentee ballots to voters in time for the votes to be counted, New Mexico is also facing penalties as well as Illinois. Illinois claims that they&#8217;re in compliance, though; Officials with two of Illinois\u2019 largest jurisdictions \u2014 the Chicago Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5qc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}