{"id":32308,"date":"2012-10-09T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32308"},"modified":"2012-10-09T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:10:32","slug":"panetta-makes-show-of-pushing-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32308","title":{"rendered":"Panetta makes show of pushing the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/oct\/7\/pentagon-makes-late-push-for-military-voters\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Leon Panetta and the Pentagon are going through the motions of encouraging the troops to vote;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cReports of precipitous drops in military voting hide the actual experience of a significant increase in military voting this year,\u201d said Mr. Carey.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Voting Assistance Program, which helps troops negotiate the confusing patchwork of 50 sets of state rules about absentee registration and voting, is orchestrating the last-minute campaign. Last week, it sent the sixth in a series of \u201cblast\u201d emails to everyone with a military email address. About 12 million emails have been sent out, with one more blast planned before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have not requested your absentee ballot for the 2012 general election, you should do so immediately,\u201d reads the email, which advises troops on how to download the right forms from the program\u2019s website. The instructions include a substitute write-in ballot they can mail if their own ballot does not arrive from their state election authorities in time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, impressive. Except that I have a .mil email account and I haven&#8217;t seen the message. I wonder how many of the rest of you have seen it.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I hope you guys from a particular unit that is deployed and spent more than 4 hours on TAH the other night clicking 157 links to the stolen valor criminals, took some  time to download your own voter registration form. We appreciate your patronage, but please vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Leon Panetta and the Pentagon are going through the motions of &hellip; <a title=\"Panetta makes show of pushing the vote\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32308\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Panetta makes show of pushing the vote<\/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-32308","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\/32308","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=32308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}