Posted on 10/10/2010 12:35:28 PM PDT by Marty62
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 federal officials that the state had not fully met their extended deadline, according to an e-mail posted online at FVAP.gov, the website of the Defense Department agency tasked with overseeing military voting.
In an e-mail sent October 5, New York State Board of Elections co-directors Robert A. Brehm and Todd Valentine wrote:
“County Boards of Elections have reported to our office that UOCAVA ballots have been transmitted to voters within their respective jurisdictions except in the City of New York, and the following counties: Erie, Niagara, Putnam and Westchester.”
And, as of Oct. 9, these ballots still have not been mailed to voters in these counties, who will now have less than 25 days to receive, mark and return their ballots, federal and state officials told FoxNews.com. New York City alone has about 50,000 servicemen and women and overseas voters.
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Can’t we get Auntie Zetuni to help with these mailings? We should be getting SOMEthing for our money. Or would that be asking too much?
Should not the New York State Attorney General take action?
Andy Cuomo?
*dies laughing*
It’s probably going on with his blessings.
NYC is THE REASON THEY ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES.
FNYC.
begin flaming me here——>
Come the next attack on NYC my reaction shall be as it was for the Bali Hotel attack.
Sad,tragic,horrible, but not my countrymen and not my issue.
You mean CUOMO who is running against Paladino.
Cold day you know where if that will happen.
YES! That is EXACTLY what should happen, tomorrow!!!
I doubt if she even knows there is an election going on.
Those legal votes these days may be enough to counter the illegal and dead votes.
Agenda is all over this.
I was being sardonic.
the same people who allow CHILDREN whose “single” mothers who vote liberal demonrat and thusly their “children” to vote (where mommykins is still receiving “child” support for said “child” through age 21)
Well soldiers vote the wrong way.
They should come back when their heads right.
-liberal philosophy
Before any election results are considered final in NY (or any other state), every soldier from there should be accounted for and their ballots counted. If their votes are not going to be counted, the whole election should be declared invalid and done all over again.
How about we get real world with them.
If I have a contract - we pay penalties as well.
They need to lose a 1% of federal funding per day they are outside the 45 day rule.
Voting is a civil right, Where is our DOJ? Protecting more terrorists?
So, these were supposed to be mailed by September 21st, but were not and then they were given additional time to mail them by October 1, and they still were not sent. Here it is October 10th and they still haven’t mailed them out?
They are almost a month late at this point, this is terrible.
Some states have been granted a waiver for the MOVE act and that waiver might be worse than the violation because it includes no prior registration and an extended voting period. So, potentially, as many votes as necessary could be drummed up after the election is already over.
What are the chances that records will show that all overseas soldiers have voted... even if they have not received the ballots? I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what was planned but a leak occurred.
I just sent this to Carl and the staff..
An election clerk at the Broward County, Florida, office actually once said they do not bother to open military mail in ballots as “...they don’t change the outcomes anyway.”
PERFECT! Thank you.
Go PALADINO!
WOW, what a comment from someone charged with making sure every vote counts.
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