Posted on 10/26/2008 9:34:27 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
Rokey Suleman Fairfax County General Registrar 703-222-0776 Rokey.Suleman@fairfaxcounty.gov
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
A little background would be nice before I make the call . . . .
Background is at the site I linked to:
Meet Fairfax Co. Registrar Rokey Suleman. He has decided to reject absentee ballots from American soldiers stationed overseas. In fact, some of the ballots he’s not counting are those from military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Suleman is using a technicality to throw out hundreds of our brave soldier’s votes. Except that Marc Ambinder reports that the Suleman is getting the technicalities wrong.
Voter disenfranchisement in any form is wrong, but the fact that some are actively seeking to take away the right to vote from the very people that are fighting to defend this fundamental American principal is deplorable.
Furthermore, Suleman is a partisan. He was the founder of the Trumbull, OH Young Democrats. Earlier this year, he ran, and lost, for the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee.
Thank you. I’ll make the call tomorrow.
“Suleman” — sounds kinda Muslim to me.
“Meet Fairfax Co. Registrar Rokey Suleman.”
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Recall, Algore sought to disenfranchise overseas military absentee ballots in the Year 2000 fracas in Florida.
Your call will be dead on arrival. They will not be moved by a million calls.
This is happening, as usual, across the country.
If people didn’t get the message in 2000 - and demand this be stopped by now, 8 years later - than shame on us.
They are testing a new way for troops to vote electronically = which would go a long way to solve it - the dems in DC are trying to shut that down/
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/military_ballots_tossed_in_fai.php
military ballots being tossed - again - trickery.
ballots “must” also have a ‘witness’ signature and the witness’s address - even though there is NO PLACE to PUT an address...
THIS is yet one more trick they pull toss military ballots - but round up the homeless and felons and make sure THEIR votes count.
e-mail sent and will also call the creep.
From: Bob Carey (Empire-Capitol Strategies) [mailt]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:37 PM
To: ‘Bob Carey (Empire-Capitol Strategies)’
Subject: Fairfax County, Virginia Rejecting FWABs
As many of you know, Sam Wright, Director of the Military Voting Project at the National Defense Committee, sent this excellent letter to the Department of Justice Voting Rights Section encouraging them to investigate the actions of Fairfax County, Virginia Board of Elections regarding witness requirements on Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots, the provisional ballots military and overseas voters use if they have not received their regular absentee ballots.
The problem is that the Fairfax County government had originally interpreted Virginia law to require all Federal Write-In Absentee ballots to have a witness’ signature, printed name and address on the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot. However, the underlying Virginia law only requires this witness signature, printed name and address if they are taking advantage of the special Virginia provision that allows the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot to ALSO serve as the absentee ballot application. Because that’s different from what the federal Voting Assistance Guide says, hundreds of Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots received to date were potentially going to be rejected. In fact, as of today, while about 260 Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots had been received by Fairfax County, only five had the witness name and address.
I’ve been in contact with the Fairfax County Registrar, Rokey Fulman, and he accepted my recommendation to contact the Virginia State Board of Elections to confirm this interpretation of the Virginia statute, as Sam’s letter points out the Fairfax interpretation is likely incorrect. I’m happy to report that he has received guidance from the State Board of Elections that the witness name and signature requirement do indeed only apply if the FWAB is also being used simultaneously as an absentee ballot application. Therefore, so long as a Federal Post Card Application is received by election day, the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot will count, which is the normal process for military absentee ballots to be cast.
Hopefully this will allow for the ballots to be fully counted. National Defense Committee, through its Military Ballot Protection Program, will continue to monitor this development, take appropriate and forceful action where needed, and advise you all as to what we are doing.
LOOKS LIKE...Someone is on it
oh yeah and looks like the name is Rokey Fulman
not....“Meet Fairfax Co. Registrar Rokey Suleman
ASK him??!!??
How about ORDER his pathetic ass to count every military vote, or he will suffer unending torment from this veteran resident of Fairfax County until he does??!!??
Trust me, this asshole has crossed the wrong veteran. I will not rest until he is so traumatized that he rues the day he even thought about not counting those ballots...
Suleman is a muslim name
—not surprised that this creep doesn’t want to count hero votes.
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