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More than one week after its extended deadline, New York still hasn’t mailed out absentee ballots to all its 320,000 military servicemen and women and overseas voters, in clear violation of the MOVE Act, FoxNews.com has learned. According to the 2009 MOVE Act, a state must send out its military and overseas ballots 45 days prior to elections. New York was granted a waiver to this deadline by the Department of Justice and given an additional 15 days -- until October 1 -- to send out all its ballots. On October 5, New York State Board of Elections co-directors informed...

Republican State Senator Serphin Maltese, the head of the Queens County GOP, and one of the founders of the Conservative Party, barely held his seat after Tuesday's election. Only 700 votes separated the pro life Senator from his Democratic opponent, Baldeo, whom some voters mistakenly thought was Italian! Maltese is one of the strongest pro lifers and conservatives in a State Senate that is being mismanaged and misdirected by Joe Bruno. Bruno, you may recall, blames local GOP losses on George Bush. The "George" he should blame is his pal, Governor George Pataki, who has not gone to bat for...