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October 05, 2009
Virginia Argues They Don't Need to Send Out Military Absentee Ballots in Time to Vote
Virginia argues that they don't need to send out military absentee ballots in time to vote ....for complete article
Last year, we covered some of the problems in the counting of military absentee ballots in Virginia, as did others. This problem has not gone away. It has just moved. The day before election day 2008, the McCain campaign filed a complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia to force Virginia to count military absentee ballots that came in after election day. McCain lost Virginia by more than enough votes, but the case went on with the Department of Justice replacing the McCain campaign.There were filings last month and will likely be a hearing this month. So what?
The Virginia State Board of Elections argued in their most recent filing that they have no legal obligation to send out military absentee ballots in a timely manner. Restated, the State of Virginia has argued in a federal court filing that they can legally send out absentee ballots to active duty soldiers the day before an election.
Restated again, the Democratic Chairwoman of the Virginia State Board of Election (appointed by the Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor) Jean Cunningham just claimed a legal basis for massively raising the barrier to voting for soldiers at war.
Wild Thing's comment.........
They really really hate this country and our troops. And Virginia has a huge military population. Many of them at sea.
And the article says there is legislation that passed the senate to keep this from happening at the state level. Nancy Pelosi will not let the legislation be presented in the House.
"The State of Virginia has argued in a federal court filing that they can legally send out absentee ballots to active duty soldiers the day before an election."
Bastards. They are trying to undermine the morale of the troops from every direction they can come up with. I wish the earth would open and swallow them.
They want to guarantee the military does not get to vote.
Posted by Wild Thing at October 5, 2009 06:44 AM
Comments
You would think in today's technological world, absentee ballots for military, and military only, could be done electronically.
State of residency and info could be encoded on their military ID which could be inserted into the voting machine to get the proper electronic ballot for the member's state and voting district. The technology is available; they only need to do it.
Posted by: BobF at October 5, 2009 07:53 AM
I vote for flogging this bitch!
Posted by: Glenn M. Cassel AMH1(AW) USN Retired at October 5, 2009 09:49 AM
Bob is right, and they could, they just won't, because those Libtards need to lie, cheat and steal to keep their jobs.
Posted by: Eden at October 5, 2009 11:45 AM
Maybe the troops from Virginia should declare themselves ACORN members. Then they will be sent a dozen ballots each.
Posted by: TomR at October 5, 2009 02:57 PM
Another way to ensure they count military ballots is to have them all register as Democrats. They don't have to vote Democrat but once they're registered Democrat, Democrats will do all they can to ensure the ballots are counted. By time they realize the troops voted for those who always support them, it'll be too late.
Posted by: BobF at October 5, 2009 09:22 PM
LOL good one Tom.
Thanks everyone, this is totally unacceptable
to do all they can to make it hard for
our troops to vote.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 6, 2009 12:09 AM
