{"id":20008,"date":"2010-08-03T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20008"},"modified":"2010-08-03T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:20:51","slug":"overseas-troops-to-be-screwed-by-largely-blue-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20008","title":{"rendered":"Overseas troops to be screwed by largely Blue States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Wolf sent us a link to a story out of Colorado<\/a> this morning that some states, mostly Democrat-leaning states, are planning to screw absentee voters (read that: active duty soldiers serving overseas) out of their right to have a voice in the government that sends them to war;<\/p>\n

Spokesman Rich Coolidge said the ballots will still be mailed, but some soldiers in remote battlefields might not have enough time to mail them back, even though the state will give them an extra seven days after the election. He said they can also send them by e-mail or fax.<\/p>\n

Coolidge blamed late primaries and petition deadlines. He said ballots for the Aug. 10 primary also went out under short notice, but the 45-day deadline doesn’t apply to those elections. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bob Carey, federal voting assistance program director for the Department of Defense, said waiver requests have been received from Washington, New York, Hawaii, Alaska, the Virgin Islands, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course the waiver they’re talking about is to the law that Obama signed last year – but there were enough loopholes in the law, states are allowed to apply for exceptions to the rule. yet another excuse for ballots to arrive late to the troops. <\/p>\n

You’d think that VoteVets, IAVA and IVAW would be jumping all over this, but, sadly, no they’re not. I’m sure TSO will have something to add since this is one of his principal issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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