{"id":20277,"date":"2010-08-26T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20277"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T14:16:03","slug":"20-of-states-seek-waivers-to-disenfranchise-military-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20277","title":{"rendered":"20% of states seek waivers to disenfranchise military voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Move Act was supposed to encourage states to accommodate military voters serving overseas and especially those serving in war zones. But it has become a big excuse to disenfranchise absentee voters. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/25\/states-seek-waiver-comply-military-voting-laws-absentee-ballot-rules\/\">Fox News<\/a> 10 states as well as the District of Columbia and the US Virgin islands have requested waivers to avoid compliance with the Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Delaware, for example, primary day, Sept. 14, 47 days before Election Day, leaving not enough time for officials in Washington to certify a winner, print ballots and ship them to Mazar-I-Sharif fast enough to comply with the new law. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, pretty much States just decided that military voters aren&#8217;t worth the trouble of accommodating. It&#8217;s easier to get a waiver than to uphold someone&#8217;s right to a voice in government? Some people&#8217;s civil rights are more important than others, I suppose. maybe the Pentagon should do what Lincoln did in the 1864 election &#8211; send the troops home to vote. If I remember right, it was all of the Ohio Volunteers who were sent from the front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Move Act was supposed to encourage states to accommodate military voters serving overseas and especially &hellip; <a title=\"20% of states seek waivers to disenfranchise military voters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20277\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20% of states seek waivers to disenfranchise military 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-20277","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\/20277","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=20277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}