{"id":32208,"date":"2012-10-01T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32208"},"modified":"2012-10-01T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:20:42","slug":"something-else-the-pentagon-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32208","title":{"rendered":"Something else the Pentagon can’t do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country Singer and John send us links to an article in Military Voter Protection Project<\/a> which reports that military voters have requested 92% fewer ballots this year than they did in 2008. MVPP points their finger at the Pentagon which has failed to abide by the federal law;<\/p>\n

With only 1,746 military voters in Virginia requesting absentee ballots so far this year \u2014 out of 126,251 service members in the state \u2014the Military Voter Protection Project says the system has broken down.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just in the Old Dominion. MVPP Executive Director Eric Eversole reports significant declines in absentee-ballot requests by service members across the nation.<\/p>\n

Compiling data from Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, Colorado and Nevada, Eversole\u2019s organization found that military families have requested 55,510 absentee ballots so far this year. That\u2019s a sharp decline from the 166,252 sought in those states in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Virginia Watchdog<\/a> reports; <\/p>\n

The dropoff is ironic, considering that Congress passed the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE) in 2009 to help highly transient military voters obtain absentee ballots wherever they are stationed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is that an incredibly small percentage of military voters are requesting absentee ballots for the 2012 election, even though a majority of military members \u2014 roughly two-thirds \u2014 will need to vote by absentee ballot,\u201d Eversole said.<\/p>\n

Eversole acknowledged that personal responsibility figures into the equation, but he said service members aren\u2019t getting the same voter-assistance and access that civilians receive through motor-vehicle offices and social-service agencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an election year when every vote will count, this is disappointing. But not unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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