Posted on 07/20/2011 5:01:45 PM PDT by JohnBrownUSA
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, (R-TX), a member of the Senate Judiciary and Armed Services Committees, today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to proactively enforce the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act and the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to prevent further disenfranchisement of service members and their families.
In the letter, Senator Cornyn wrote, “The November 2010 elections were marred by the Justice Department’s grossly inadequate enforcement of federal laws designed to safeguard the voting rights of our military service members and their families, including the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE Act) and the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). With the 2012 election cycle quickly approaching, I write to strongly urge you to take the lessons learned in 2010 and proactively apply them in order to prevent further disenfranchisement.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cornyn.senate.gov ...
Since Obama knows that the military traditionally votes Republican, he is deliberately disenfranchising our fighting men and women, who are risking their lives to defend America, so that he can minimize the political damage that he is going to face in the polls on election day.
If this doesn't make you want to vote AGAINST Obama in 2012, then you are part of the problem.
The solution is to let our military service members vote, and to let their voices be heard!
SInce the military is putting their lives on the line to PROTECT our right to vote, I firmly believe their votes should be counted FIRST!
You’re right.
BTTT!
Really? — like THAT’LL happen.... This DOJ can’t even prosecute crime that’s right in front of its face; don’t hold yer breath on this one.
It was a nice strongly worded letter, though wasn't it?
Yeah, like Holder going to get right on that.
Well, right after he gets done protecting “his people” (Holder’s words, not mine)...
President Bush, whose respect for the military is beyond doubt, never really managed to do anything about this, or about massive cheating at the polls.
Obama certainly won’t.
Wow. Cornyn is one of my Senators, and I’m usually calling him to tell him to stop being a milquetoast. Guess I’ll call tomorrow to congratulate him for listening. :)
You shouldn’t have to give up your citizenship rights—your right to vote—because you are serving overseas in the military!
Cornyn and the rest of the whimpy republicans are a little late. They should have made some major changes when W was president. But they sat back and allowed voter fraud to get worse. They should have shut down ACORN and the IRS should have been on Jessie Jackson. Oh, I forgot. They’re whimpy.
It seems to me there’s no real reason that military votes which are late can’t be counted the same as if they had ‘chads’ or ‘mismarked’ or all the other categories that allow ballots to be added to the vote well after elections, by court order at times.
Well, except to use the military as the emotional pawn in the game of politics. Which would be unacceptable to people in any other reality. I sincerely tried hard to think of any other reason.
Shirley Cornyn is not this naive, to imagine Holder is at the hugh unJustice Department to enforce the series laws. ... But I agree, the criminal bastiges need to be rejected on this chrage, too. I mean, if a bunch of criminal democrats can’t respect the voting rights of those risking their lives to insure the right to be a We The People Republic, what would such criminal bastards respect? And the answer is ... they respect/value nothing but their own empowerment.
The only ‘people’ Holder cares about is his people. Military need not apply. He is the ultimate racist.
Of course. As you suggest, it’s a no-brainer. The Republicans have at least THREE good reasons to support the right of the military to vote.
1. No one should be deprived of the right to vote, least of all the military who are serving our country.
2. Ensuring that military votes are counted would give Republicans more votes.
3. The great majority of Americans would be outraged at the idea that the military are being deprived of their right to vote. Which would gain even MORE votes for the Republicans if they pushed it.
Yet they did NOT push it, not even when Bush was in charge and the Republicans had a majority in congress.
How wimpy can you get?
Eric Holder would no more defend the voting rights of the military than would a pile of human excrement.
Yeah....
Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are
Ask this communists Holder for what? Forget it.
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