Posted on 09/10/2010 11:41:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Good point. Thanks.
Thanks for your explanation. I know it’s a matter of scheduling primaries and ballot-printing deadlines within the states themselves that cause the problem. These days with politicians much more willing to contest election results, the 45-day deadline is going to be difficult to do. All the states will have to start having May or June primaries and I know the Washington politicians don’t want primaries before their summer break campaigning. It’s a cunundrum.
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You bet...I’m sure there’s a lot more to it than my simple understanding of it but that’s the basics as I see it.
Sounds to me like Obama wants to give Russ Feingold a little election day insurance...
Today the Department of Justice effectively rewrote the 2009 MOVE Act designed to protect military voters. In a settlement reached with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the Holder Justice Department allowed Wisconsin to mail ballots to overseas military voters only 32 days before the election, instead of the statutorily mandated 45 days. Once again, it is no accident this embarrassing settlement is being released on a Friday, so fewer might notice.
Ok you legal brains ... what remedy’s are possible here?
Could a member of the military sue the State of Wisconsin? I would think that a person in the military who was also a resident of the state would have standing.
When the time comes, the military will be on the right side!
To think that Obama will award an MOH makes me sick. The MOH stands in direct contrast to everything Obama is and stands for. Aaaaaarrgh!
To think that Obama will award an MOH makes me sick. The MOH stands in direct contrast to everything Obama is and stands for. Aaaaaarrgh!
I hear you but Obama is only the messenger and a poor one, it shouldn’t detract from the heroism of SSgt. Giunta.
I was so impressed with President Bush in the way he handled presenting the MOH to the relatives of recipients during his term, strictly class.
DOJ supports the rights of Illegal Aliens and will go the ends of the earth to make sure they have their rights, but those brave patriots who are literally losing their lives and limbs fighting to keep us all safe and free get NO HELP?!!
Its like the Rolling Stones song..”every cop is a criminal and all the sinner saints”.
Holder should be put on trial and jailed.
Mocking our allies is hilarious.
Peeing all over the one group, more than any other, whose right to vote should not be tampered with. Flagrant civil rights violation!
I hate dims. They are absolutely without scruples and apparently are never fazed by the fact that their agenda doesn’t win unless they cheat.
Military votes, ‘way too Conservative for this gang of thugs and cheaters.
I believe that anyone who is in uniform is eligible to vote because of their age, is that not so?
Denial of military ballots was one of the crimes of Gore’s cadres in the phony recount of 2000.
Absolutely, that's my understanding. Enlistees can sign up before age 18 but only with a parents permission, I doubt there's any deployed under 18 years of age.
Can military members sue for their constitutional right to have their votes count?
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