{"id":14925,"date":"2009-10-07T06:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14925"},"modified":"2009-10-07T06:42:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:42:43","slug":"virginia-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-absentee-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14925","title":{"rendered":"Virginia; we don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; absentee voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ziggy sends us this link to an amazing story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/soren_dayton\/2009\/10\/03\/virginia-argues-that-they-dont-need-to-send-out-military-absentee-ballots-in-time-to-vote\/\">Redstate<\/a> in which the Virginia State Board of Elections claims they have no responsibility to get absentee ballots to military voters in time for their votes to count;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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, theDemocratic 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You really need to go read the whole thing &#8211; it&#8217;s pretty instructive in how military voters are losing support in their home states now that their votes actually change the outcome of elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ziggy sends us this link to an amazing story at Redstate in which the Virginia State &hellip; <a title=\"Virginia; we don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; absentee voters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14925\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virginia; we don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; absentee voters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}