Posted on 10/12/2010 5:50:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Election '10: The de facto disenfranchisement of soldiers by an incompetent Board of Elections is a shameful slap in the face of those who are fighting and dying in two wars to protect our right to vote and theirs.
There's no excuse for this. None. The failure of the state of New York's Board of Elections to send out absentee ballots to the state's military and overseas voters, even after being granted a federal extension under the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, is made worse by the fact that New York City on 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of the war on terror.
We agree with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on this one when he said: "We send our young men and women overseas to fight and to die for us and we don't care enough to make sure they get the right to exercise their franchise? That's what they're over there fighting for as much as anything else."
The Department of Justice has belatedly threatened a lawsuit to force compliance with federal law now that it's become headline news, but the feds should have been on top of this a long time ago. Perhaps DOJ was too busy protecting the right of the New Black Panthers to intimidate voters.
"A credible enforcement operation would have detected a problem on Oct. 2," says J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney who gave testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about DOJ's refusal to prosecute the Black Panthers. "DOJ didn't detect it, and almost two weeks later, the situation has become critical in New York and other states. The only place they have sued to enforce the law? Guam."
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Disgusting is far to polite of a description.
Everything I know I learned from RAH and C S Lewis.
I vote in Michigan but I’m stationed out west. I never received my absentee ballot, but I voted with a provisional.
My best guess is that my absentee was filled in and counted, if you know what I mean...
Then what should be done is to count the entire number of voter registrations in any given area and award the same number votes to the party opposite the party of the individual who made this decision. (Obviously Democrat, but I wouldn’t have any problem doing the same thing had a Republican pulled this) Maybe even throw in a 10% penalty (1000 disenfranchised service voters = 1100 opposite party votes)!
“Everything I know I learned from RAH and C S Lewis.”
A person could certainly do worse.
“Bill Clinton pulled the same crap in 2000, ordering certain Navy ships to deepsix their mailbags of absentee votes headed home from the Middle East. Remember that one?”
I, for one, am hearing about deep sixing mail bags for the first time. Do you have a source?
Story was, some chief petty officers told how they'd been ordered to throw mailbags full of absentee ballots overboard from the fantail of the JFK ......
So it was said, but of course the MSM would never report such a thing affecting the Gorebot's chances.
Mr. Bush had the watch ..... you saying 'Rats in the USPS delayed the deliveries?
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