{"id":20890,"date":"2010-10-19T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2010-10-19T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:45:13","slug":"washington-times-surrendering-military-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20890","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times; Surrendering military votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times staff takes some swipes at the Justice Department today in their editorial entitled Surrendering military votes<\/a> this morning;<\/p>\n

At least 16 states or territories are or recently were in noncompliance with the law requiring military ballots be mailed at least 45 days before Election Day so they can reach troops stationed in remote locales. The most widespread violations appear to be in Illinois, where “at least 34 out of Illinois’ 110 jurisdictions failed to comply,” according to [Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, both of California, and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas]. On top of that, whistleblower J. Christian Adams reported yesterday, Chicago election officials are sending a suspicious number of ballots electronically rather than on paper. When these are returned by service members, they “must be re-created” by local election officials onto ballots that can to be tallied by Sequoia ballot machine readers. Such a complicated process poses an invitation to political shenanigans, especially in a place with a reputation for ballot stuffing like the Windy City.<\/p>\n

Despite months of warnings from outside watchdogs, Justice officials sit on their hands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it was Operator Dan I saw on the VoteVets forum asking when that non-partisan group was going to mention the violations of the MOVE Act and the response was that “only Guam” was in violation. Well, “only Guam” and 15 other States. I remember someone over there taking credit for the MOVE Act, but I guess they’ve washed their hands of it.<\/p>\n

Nothing at IAVA, either. After the stink that Old Cue Ball Paul Reickhof put up over his scorecard last election cycle, you’d think that they’d be upset over the MOVE violations – they lied and misconstrued facts to earn those votes from the military, you’d think they’d be concerned if they actually got them. <\/p>\n

Of course, there’s a shortage of information at the VFW website, too. At least The Burn Pit<\/a> links to articles on the subject.<\/p>\n

At the IVAW, Geoff Millard<\/a> is more concerned about delivering goat feed to Iraqis than his “brothers and sisters” getting their votes counted. Don’t come back Millard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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