{"id":20819,"date":"2010-10-13T07:13:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20819"},"modified":"2010-10-13T07:13:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:13:37","slug":"doj-sues-ny-over-absentee-ballot-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20819","title":{"rendered":"DoJ sues NY over absentee ballot fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that late last week i told you that New York failed to mail out absentee ballots to make their negotiated deadline of October 1st. The Department of Justice has finally discovered something they can sue about and filed a lawsuit against the State yesterday according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/13\/nyregion\/13vote.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While all the remaining ballots \u2014 roughly 40,000, federal officials said \u2014 have now been sent, the delay raised the risk that some might be returned too late to be counted in the election results.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department said it was negotiating with New York election officials over extending a period after the Nov. 2 election by which such ballots could arrive and still be counted. The goal of the negotiations is to reach a joint agreement to settle the lawsuit as a consent decree approved by a federal judge, which would be legally binding and would pre-empt state election laws. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NYS&#8217;s primary was held September 14th so they had two weeks ro print the ballots and send them out. According to another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/29\/nyregion\/29primary.html\">NY Times article<\/a>, NY is planning on moving the primaries up in order to make the deadline next year. But that doesn&#8217;t excuse the fact that they missed the deadline this year. <\/p>\n<p>NY should have moved their primary up this year since the MOVE Act passed last year and NY&#8217;s primaries were scheduled for only the fourth day before the deadline to mail out absentee ballots. Anyone could&#8217;ve seen this coming&#8230;even a blind governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that late last week i told you that New York failed to mail &hellip; <a title=\"DoJ sues NY over absentee ballot fiasco\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20819\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DoJ sues NY over absentee ballot fiasco<\/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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","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=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}